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String Type

Standard Metalic Medina Artiga-1240 (+$16.83) Nylon Medina Artiga - 1230 (+$14.53)

Equalizer:

None PICK UP (+$36.00) ARTEC FS-4 (+$99.00) ARTEC ASE-N (+$114.00) ARTEC AGE-7 (+$165.00) ARTEC HT-G (+$178.00)

Hanger and fitting button:

None Hanger and fitting button (+$14.99)

Hardcase or softcase:

None Awayo softcase (+$16.60) Canvas softcase 1 (+$20.00) Classic hardcase (+$56.00) Aluminium hardcase (+$99.00) Awayo hardcase (+$56.00) Hardcase - Awayo Detail (+$52.00) Hardcase A model (+$56.99) Charango - quena case (+$59.00) Canvas softcase 2 (+$24.15) Semi rigid case (+$75.00)

Characteristics:
Soundbox: Halfboard white pine and jacaranda
Fingerboard: Jacaranda
Type of Wood: Naranjillo
Soundhole: Butterfly
General Features: Armadillo Carving
Strings: Nylon
Tuning Pins: Metallic Material
Bridge: Bolivian Jacaranda and bone frets.
Tuning: Typically tuned GCEAE. All ten strings are tuned inside one octave. The five pairs of courses or strings are pitched as follows (from 5th to 1st course): gg cc eE aa ee.) It usually has 5 charango strings and 5 guitar strings.

Approx. Size:
Lenght: 66 cm. (25.98")
Widht: 18 cm. (7,08").

There are many stories of how the charango came to be made with it's distinctive diminutive soundbox of armadillo. One story says that the native musicians liked the sound the vihuela (an ancestor of the Classical Guitar) made, but lacked the technology to shape the wood in that manner. Another story says that the Spaniards prohibited natives from practicing their ancestral music, and that the charango was a (successful) attempt to make a lute that could be easily hidden under a garment. It is believed the charango originated in the 18th century Andes somewhere in modern-day PotosîÎ Bolivia, probably from Amerindian contact with Spanish settlers.