development in town sixty who took the twentieth century saw big changes to the size and construction of the guitar as well as playing technics that was the phase in which the use of tropical woods became standard top performers and audiences quickly got used to the sound and the tropical board caught on can but those times are over now. twenty years ago good turf reinhart a guitar maker and to begin in southern germany had the idea of using local woods instead. i built guitars out of untreated local word but i wasn't happy with the acoustics so i looked for a way to change the wood so it would sound like tropical wood. in the wood engineers have been collaborating with trying hard to find out how to use domestic timber as a substitute for tropical wood to give the wood the necessary characteristics for