A few years ago my younger son cut down a mulberry tree that was
beginning to be a threat to cars parked in my driveway due to it being
vertically challenged.  After one of the three trunks finally did
collapse harmlessly I decided to have it taken out before it fell onto
my car.  What to do with about a thousand pounds of mulberry wood?

Well, after several months of thinking about it I cleared up some space
in the shop, and starting at about noon and working until after midnight
I managed to create a set of thirty seven Xylophone bars which I later
installed into a converted-to-coin-op player piano along with a set of
reeds from an old parlor organ.

Using the reeds from the organ to set the StroboConn I was able to tune
them all in a reasonably short time to satisfactory pitch.  The tools
used were a table saw and a belt sander for cutting and beveling and
tuning the individual bars.  Of course, having a StroboConn makes the
job quite easy for the tuning part.

I suspect that any other similar hardwood would produce decent results,
too.

Hal Davis