Mahogany is a species of African and Central and South American origin, traditionally used in the manufacture of 19th-century English furniture whose cabinetmakers made such extensive use of it that it supplanted the Oak era of Elizabethan memory, it has retained its allure of understated elegance ever since. Universally appreciated for its elegance, versatility and pliability Entandrophragma cylindricum of the Meliaceae family, is a wood that is used for its caretteristics from fixtures to musical instruments.