I sometimes borrow (often for months at a time) a maple five string banjo but don't think I can use that as a reference given my lack of banjo experience. I hear frailing as a woodier tone than Scruggs, but my ear isn't too sure even about that.

A friend has a recent maple National resonator mandolin which is very droolworthy, and that mapleness is there in spades.

Peace, Mooh.