The coral wood (adeep red African hardwood) produces a sound brighter than cypress, but has the hardness and weight to give it the power one expects from a flamenca negra. This is one of the most excitingflamenco guitars we have, beautiful flamenco tone, and edge, low fast action. I expect this maker to become very hot. I have compared José Ruiz Pedregosa's flamenco guitars head to head with that of flamenco Gerundino Fernandez and found that I liked that of Jose Ruiz Pedregosa more.