Any Tiple players here?

[lotis]

I have an old Martin T18 tiple that is a blast and has a huge voice. Tenor uke sized 10 string with a very deep body. Sounds like a little bitty 12 string! Anyone else?

[Fran Guidry]

I got a '49 T-18 last year, it needs plenty of work but my buddy got a pretty nice sound out of it: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3oXh9KgFeV8

Fran

[Steve DeRosa]

Those things are cool - sorry I didn't pick one up for $150-175 back in the '70s when nobody wanted them...

This one looks like it has interesting possibilities:

http://www.specimenproducts.com/electric-tiple/

[The Bard Rocks]

I've been playing a Regal for years.. but only rarely. Love the sound (like a whole chorus!) and love the music that someone else can get from them. For me, it's been hard to find what I want to play on them. Loud when strummed, quiet when fingerpicked. Hard for me to pick melody on as the courses are so far apart, my guitar-trained fingers always fall short of where they ought to be.

On the rare times I use it on-stage, I always get laughs when I say, "Don't ever put a guitar into a wash set on 'automatic'", then pull out the tiple.

[larriveed03]

I have been playing guitar and mandolin for many years and just got a custom built tiple from a luthier friend and haven't put it down since I got it . I can see these instruments really taking off . My instrument is an exact replica of the Martin such an amazing sound for such a small instrument .

[Rodger Knox]

I've never played one, but I did replace the bridge on one once. I think it was a Regal, and gluing the bridge down was a real trick. It was 1"x4" which is a really small footprint, and it was pinless on top of that. Ten steel strings puts a lot more stress on the glue joint than four nylon strings does!