Characteristics Sound box: Halfboard Oregon pine and Jacaranda Fingerboard: Jacaranda Type of wood: Painted Tarco Sound hole: Asimetric shape Strings: Nylon Tuning Pins: Metallic Material Bridge: bone frets Frequency: 4,40 Hz 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: 80 cm. (31. 20") Width: 21 cm. (8. 19")
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 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." |