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Professional Charango - Bolivia soundhole

Product code:IMCHA319

$365.27

This professional charango has the sound hole in the shape of Bolivia. The sound box is made of white spruce pine and jacaranda. Naranjillo wood is light colored and hard, which allows it to adapt perfectly to climate changes.

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Characteristics:
Sound box: Half board White Pine and Jacaranda
Finger board: Jacaranda
Type of wood: Naranjillo
Sound hole: Bolivian Sheep
Strings: Nylon 1240
Tuning pins: Metallic
Bridge: Bone frets
Scale: 38
General Features: Irregular Shape of the Sound box
Tuning: Mi 4. 40
Frequency: 4. 40 Hz

Approx. size
Length: 66 cm (25. 98")
Width: 18 cm (7. 08")

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