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Characteristics:
Soundboard: White pine
Finger board: Ebony and White pine
Type of wood: Tarco
Soundhole: Round
Strings: Nylon
Tuning pins: Metallic
Bridge: Bone frets
General features: Nacre inlays on the sound hole, headstock and fingerboard
Scale: 37
Tuning: Mi
Frequency: 4. 40 Hz

Dimensions:
Length: 68. 5 cm (26. 71")
Width: 18. 5 cm. (7. 21")
Sound box height: 9cm (3. 51")

There are many stories of how the charango came to be made with it's distinctive diminutive sound box 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 Potosí Bolivia, probably from Amerindian contact with Spanish settlers.