Like rosewood, padauk is sometimes used to make xylophone, organ and marimba keys, and guitars. The mallets are made from hardwoods such as teak, padauk, black cutch, yindaik, or pyinkado. Rosewood is the most desirable, while Padauk is a popular affordable alternative. Padauk wood is sturdier than teak and is widely used for furniture making. Models have appeared using alder, padauk (paduak, padouk) and swamp ash. There are burr wood and buttress root formations in Andaman Padauk. The lobby previously featured a curved wall of Padauk red wood. Padauk wood is obtained from several species of "Pterocarpus". Padauk, which was produced by SIL International, is Unicode-compliant. She also mentions the use of the Sangrilla tree ("Pterocarpus officinalis"), also known as Padauk. Major commercial timber species are Gurjan ("Dipterocarpus" spp.) and Padauk ("Pterocarpus dalbergioides"). However, Padauk is not used anymore due to the difficulty in preparing the dye.