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Ebony is fairly unproblematic. There are several species all in the same genus (but other trees also in that genus are clearly not ebonies - persimmon is one).
Maple is a horrorshow! Originally "maple" indicated any of more than 100 species in the genus Acer. Most species come from Asia (counting Europe as part of Asia) but some elsewhere, notably North America. But Europeans in past centuries travelling to foreign places and meeting unfamiliar trees named many of them "(something) maple". Queensland Maple is a Flindersia - nothing at all to do with the genus Acer and distantly related to oranges and lemons. Silky Maple (an even better tonewood, though very hard to get) is a different Flindersia. And so on.
Cedar is worse! A true cedar is any of the four species in the genus Cedrus. The only one of these four that I know is used as a tonewood - and that seldom because it is hard to get - is Cedar of Lebanon. This genus is part of the family Pinaceae, which also contains 120-odd pines, more than 30 spruces, a dozen larches, Douglas Fir/Oregon Pine (which is not a pine or a fir), 50-odd firs, and various others. Of the three best known "cedar" tonewoods, none is actually a cedar, nor even in the same family! Western Red Cedar is a cypress, as is Port Orford Cedar, while Spanish Cedar is closely related to (of all things) the mahoganies!
Rosewood is relatively easy: it is any of the more than 200 species in the genus Dalbergia.
As for beech and myrtle, let's not go there.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Guibourtia_coleosperma
the timber merchant is looking into it for me - they bought the stock from another yard that closed nearly 9 years ago - so it’s been around a while.
well the plot thins .... Duffields can't exactly identify it. It turns out to be old stock that was bought in at the now defunct John Boddy Timber store in N Yorks many years ago, and simply got transferred to Duffields when they bought part of Boddys stock when they closed down. It must have been there for at least 10 years if not more.
They have definitely ruled out it being Bubinga, Iroko, Afromosia, and any sort of Teak. They are convinced its a proper Rosewood but can't say definitively what it is. Anyhow, I will just have to make something with it and see how it pans out. I might just cut a piece of one end and make a couple of fretboards first to see how it looks.
Its got a nice tap tone - so it might end up being a few hundred sets of claves !
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it certainly looks very similar and reading about Pau Rosa it seems to fit the characteristics very well. Seems like a good wood to use. Thanks for the link.