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Charango, anyone?
My brother brought me a nice little seemingly well-made charango a few years back that I've never played, and to be honest -- playing guitar and mandolin a bit too -- I'm just not up to learning a new instrument with totally different tuning. So I'm thinking about tuning its five string courses to the same as the top five strings on guitar, A-D-G-B-E (or maybe drop-A!?).
It's sure a pretty-sounding instrument. Anyone with experience on these and especially with more standard tunings?
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I have a Garcia charango - bought from Elderly, but they don't carry them now. Loads better than the one I bought on the street in Quito, which had binding applied with Bic pen.
I play in standard charango tuning, which is similar to uke, or guitar capoed at fret V. The Duran/Pedrotti book is a good place to start with South American styles: https://www.amazon.com/Charango-Meth...s%2C188&sr=8-1 D.H. |
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i'm fond of the work Kate Hathaway does on Charango...
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I use mine to prop the bedroom window open. It is more of a folk instrument with a very bad fret job.
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I enjoy playing charango and have a nice one, although i no longer play it much as I play latin & s american forms on accordions.
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Interestingly enough, I've become more interested in the Ronroco after listening to a whole bunch of Los Kjarkas music videos. The Ronroco "inventor" is a member of the band, and I really like the lower register of the Ronroco. Anyone who hasn't listened to South American indigenous musical form should check out Los Kjarkas: This "interest" is somewht dangerous for me, as I build instruments often and have already started pulling in specifications to make a CAD construction drawing of an "Americanized" Ronroco. |
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