Kjarkas model professional Charango with a diablo image carved on the sound box. The eyes present decorative incrustations. Mara is a dark colored pretty hard wood, very aprreciated by its quality.Characteristics:
Sound box: Half board White Sprunce pine
Finger board: Ebony
Type of wood: Mara
Sound hole: Round
Strings: Nylon
Tuning pins: Metallic
Bridge: Bone frets
Characteristics: Kjarkas Model with Devil Carving
Tuning: Mi
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. "