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Thread #28037 Message #346410
Posted By: aussiebloke
25-Nov-00 - 01:06 AM
Thread Name: 14 strings in 6 courses - what is it?
Subject: 14 strings in 6 courses - what is it?
G'day...
Can anybody help to identify a stringed instrument which may or may not be a tiple (tee-play).
Any tiple info I have found on the web consistently refers to them having 10 strings & 4 courses; this beasty has 14 strings in 6 courses.
It looks shorter in the neck than the pics of tiples on the web - they look more like a miniature guitar in shape, this instrument is not guitar shaped in the body...
The owner of the instrument thinks it might be a lute, but again, it doesn't look quite like piccies of lutes, which all seem to have a 'bent neck'. This instrument is straight in the neck.
Please let me know if you have a guess; I need to know what to name the instrument in a concert program...