Possible Clues:

• Yesteryear's maestro's lost in the morning in the wood
• Chestnut kin
• Honey producer from Switzerland is for the birds
• Hardwood tree with small nuts
• It has branches in the Strand, do we hear?
• Copper or silver tree
• Wood — famous conductor taking morning off
• Carpenter perhaps, by chestnut tree
• Part of rifle not using the right wood
• Tree worker, perhaps, planted in front of church