Actually we're both right. My local guy, a South African national who imports exotic woods from around the world to supplement his domestic offerings and whom maintains mills in Africa to support his American enterprise (and truly knows his stuff) lectured me about the differences and nomenclature of the bewildering kinds of ebony. Macassar ebony comes from India/SE Asia, Madagascar comes from that island African nation, Gabon (or Gaboon, depending on the English translation) comes from mainland Africa, generally from around that country. There's a lot of overlap in the colorations, not to mention confusion in definitions, but all behaves generally the same in application.
