Characteristics: Sound box and Neck: Oregon Pine Fingerboard: Jacaranda Type of Wood: Naranjillo Sound hole: Oval Shaped Strings: Nylon Tuning Pins: Metallic Material Bridge: Bolivian Jacaranda and bone frets. General Features: Halfboard 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: Length: 75 cm (29.53") Width: 25 cm (9.84").
The ronroco is a larger relative of the charango, in Bolivia, a ronroco is an octave down from a charango, with its distinctive shape and sound, it is a traditional Andean stringed instrument of the lute family. Developed in Bolivia by Gonzalo Hermosa a member of the famous Group Kjarkas, is well known within the musicians and string Instruments lovers." |