Timples and more galore!

I hope this is the right place to post this. Admin/mods feel free to move it if required.

On a recent visit to Lanzarote in the Canary Islands, I visited the 'Casa Museo del Timple' (House Museum of the Timple). It has a collection of 'small guitars' (their words) from around the world, including of course the ukulele, and the Timple, a traditional ukulele-like instrument from the Canary Islands tuned GCEAD. this tuning is re-entrant but slightly different to the uke - the G and C are both re-entrant, so the lowest string is the E. It's also only one note different from the charango, and is the same as 5 course lute and vihuela tuning. The timple also has a special curved back, like the Mexican vihuelas and guitarrones.

Anyway, I of course took lots of pictures of all the wonderful instruments and thought I'd share with you all as I thought it'd interest the forum here. They also have many ethnic instruments, but I am just going to share those that are relatives of the ukulele here, unless there is interest to see more of course.

This forum only allows 4 attachments per post. On this first post is...
* A traditional Timple
* Another traditional Timple
* A Venezuelan Cuatro
* A Portuguese Viola Boeira

* South American Charango
* Madeiran Cavaquinho
* Ukulele!
* Baroque Guitar

* Mexican Vihuela
* Portuguese Cavaquinho
* Puerto Rican Tiple Doliente
* A modern Timple (compare to the traditional ones above)

Fascinating! Thank you for sharing.

If you go on Youtube you can hear some of these delightful instruments. The Timple is cool sounding.

Thanks for those pics. Cousins all together

Oh, wow! These are fantastic! Thanks for sharing.