In my carob work for some time now, I've wanted to get access to the expertise of woodworkers so I can connect the traits that woodworkers value with the plant's anatomy.
Sometimes I wonder how academics find work that's previously been done when it's off the beaten path a bit. If you don't get just the right keywords in Google Scholar or if the work was done a century ago...
I looked again & this time found this study re xylophones & wood species. @plantscience
@plantscience "Classifying xylophone bar materials by perceptual, signal processing
and wood anatomy analysis" isn't precisely the sort of thing I'm interested in, but it's closer. And it's certainly interesting! #Music#Botany#PlantScience