Dusepo
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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
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
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