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25 Nov 00 - 01:06 AM (#346410) Subject: 14 strings in 6 courses - what is it? From: aussiebloke 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... Thanks in advance... |
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25 Nov 00 - 01:28 AM (#346417) Subject: RE: 14 strings in 6 courses - what is it? From: catspaw49 Call it Jimmy. Spaw |
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25 Nov 00 - 06:29 AM (#346445) Subject: RE: 14 strings in 6 courses - what is it? From: aussiebloke Jimmy doesn't suit, I think it is female, but thanks Spaw for coming out to play... The bloke that owns it also plays a lap steel guitar - great for playing those traditional Irish hulas. Does that help with the identification process? PS: I have looked at pics of vihuela's - I don't think it is a one-of-them. Cheers... aussiebloke |
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25 Nov 00 - 07:28 AM (#346457) Subject: RE: 14 strings in 6 courses - what is it? From: GUEST,Dunadan Send us a piccy ! |
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25 Nov 00 - 07:35 AM (#346460) Subject: RE: 14 strings in 6 courses - what is it? From: Bernard It just might be called Eric... But a piccie would confirm it!! |
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25 Nov 00 - 07:40 AM (#346462) Subject: RE: 14 strings in 6 courses - what is it? From: John P It might be a bandurria. They usually have a tear drop shaped body, a short neck, and anywhere from four to six courses of strings. The body is deeper than a mandolin body, with a single soundhole in the middle. It is a Spanish/Latin American instrument, now mostly found in the Andes and in Cuba. John |
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25 Nov 00 - 07:59 AM (#346469) Subject: RE: 14 strings in 6 courses - what is it? From: Mooh Sounds like a Fi-fi, except it doesn't look French. |
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25 Nov 00 - 08:52 AM (#346493) Subject: RE: 14 strings in 6 courses - what is it? From: McGrath of Harlow Might maybe be a charrango, from Chile? |
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25 Nov 00 - 11:39 AM (#346556) Subject: RE: 14 strings in 6 courses - what is it? From: aussiebloke Could be a Bandurria, indeed it might... The neck is too short for it to be a |
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25 Nov 00 - 11:41 AM (#346557) Subject: RE: 14 strings in 6 courses - what is it? From: aussiebloke Too short for it to be a Charrango... |
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21 Dec 00 - 11:28 AM (#361090) Subject: RE: 14 strings in 6 courses - what is it? From: aussiebloke We have pronounced it to be a Phillipino Bandurria... |