How to identify lobular rosewood

Red sandalwood is a general term, just like red sandalwood (including white rosewood and red rosewood). Red sandalwood in many countries is also called red sandalwood, including Indian rosewood, which was used for furniture in the Ming Dynasty.

We believe that rosewood should be Indian lobular rosewood, also known as chicken blood rosewood, which is the most precious wood known at present and the highest grade of rosewood.

⊙ At present, erhu engraved with \ \ "blood sandalwood \" or \ \ "rosewood xylophone \ \" is more common in Suzhou and Shanghai. In fact, more than 90% of erhu is African rosewood.

The quality of African rosewood and rosewood is very different, and its value cost is 1/4 to 1/6 of rosewood. The quality of musical instruments made by it is equivalent to that of old rosewood (red rosewood), but it is not comparable to rosewood.

I have seen two kinds of African sandalwood, one is more suitable as a work of art, and the other is sandalwood, which is often used to pretend to be Indian blood sandalwood. As for the latter, its material is equivalent to rosewood in timbre, and its price and cost are also equivalent, but its vision is not as good as rosewood.

In my impression, the standard name of the mainland only refers to an Indian sandalwood, and the inspection report of African sandalwood sold in Shanghai clearly records that the wood belongs to a sandalwood, and there is no word blood sandalwood.

I have seen many huqin inscribed with \ \ "blood sandalwood", and its material is really African sandalwood, not blood sandalwood, so I can be sure that someone is misleading or selling African sandalwood as Indian blood sandalwood for profiteering.

At present, the real materials are out of stock, mostly South African rosewood, especially in Shanghai and Suzhou. Experienced people can see it intuitively, but ordinary people can't tell it apart.

⊙ This kind of rosewood was scarce from the end of Ming Dynasty, and it was extinct in the middle of Qing Dynasty, so it was a government collection or furniture at that time and could not be spread to the people. So what is certain is that the rosewood xylophone is a new material for many years, and there is no old material.

The reason for the misjudgment of the old material is that the surface of this material is easy to oxidize. After half a year, the surface of the piano will turn black, but that is only a little appearance, and there is no change inside.

As for the new material, it can't replace the timbre of the old material, which is why the old violin is expensive. I believe erhu will go this way in the near future.

The real Indian blood acid branch has a special fragrance, but it is not sandalwood, but the fragrance of blood acid branch is not sour. If your piano is sour, you should ask an experienced person to identify it.

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