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Garcia Bros.
"Garcia" Concert Charango - Armadillo Carving
IMCHA363
Price:
$844.50
$759.50
10% OFF
String Type
Standard
Metalic Medina Artiga-1240 (+$16.83)
Nylon Medina Artiga - 1230 (+$14.53)
Equalizer
None
ARTEC FS-4 (+$99.00)
ARTEC ASE-N (+$114.00)
ARTEC AGE-7 (+$165.00)
ARTEC HT-G (+$178.00)
Hanger and fitting button
None
Hanger and fitting button (+$14.99)
Hardcase or softcase
None
Awayo softcase (+$16.60)
Canvas softcase 1 (+$20.00)
Classic hardcase (+$56.00)
Aluminium hardcase (+$99.00)
Awayo hardcase (+$56.00)
Hardcase - Awayo Detail (+$52.00)
Hardcase A model (+$56.99)
Charango - quena case (+$59.00)
Canvas softcase 2 (+$24.15)
Semi rigid case (+$75.00)
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Concert chrango made of algarrobo wood by the recognized García brothers (Rubén and Jaime). Algarrobo is a solid brownish light orange material which provides the instrument with stability. This charango has an armadillo carved on the back of the sound box.
Characteristics:
Sound box: White Pine
Finger board: Ebony
Type of wood: Algarrobo
Soundhole: Irregular
Strings: Nylon 1240
General Features: Armadillo Carving
Tuning pins: Metallic
Bridge: Bone frets
Scale: 37
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 it's 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.
