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"Aruquipa" Charango Manguerito Type - 37cm

"Aruquipa" Charango Manguerito Type - 37cm

Product code:IMCHA309

~~$198.38~~ $169.00

This small professional pocket charango which measures only 37 cm is made by the Bolivian luthier Jesús Aruquipa. This instrument, aside from beign half of the size of the standard size presents seven strings arranged in five settings along the ebony fingerboard.

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Characteristics:
Soundboard: White Pine
Finger board: Ebony
Type of wood: Nogal
Sound hole: Round
Strings: Nylon 1240
Tuning pins: Metallic
Bridge: Bone frets
Tuning: From high to low notes: B - E - B - G - D
Frequency: 4. 40 Hz

Approx. size
Length: 37 cm (14. 43")
Width: 11 cm. (7. 08")

Note: Because is made upon request, the construction may take from 20 to 25 days

There are many stories of how the charango came to be made with its 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