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I know the point you're making is that one can play these instruments in different ways, but for those not familiar with the Charango, it's still worth checking out how these are typically played. The strumming and rythimic patterns are quite impressive. As many mentioned, a good place to start is Jaime Torres (or the random guy from a Bolivian guitar store that pops up when you search for Charango on RU-vid). Thanks for popularising this!
Charango, typical instrument from Bolivia, Peru, Argentina, Chile and part of Brasil. Open a map, identify the area where these countries have boundaries and there is where charango is from. Jaime Torres was the first charango concert player in the 60s. Look for Misa Criolla and you will listen his playing. Thank you Tim Pierce for bring this especial instrument in your world wide show!
I love the sound of the charango. About 20 years ago I got a bit obsessed by them and ended up importing them from Bolivia, where they are made, to the U.K, where I live. I think they are so under-used in modern music.
Like a Ukelele on steroids!! and an acoustic 6 string bass. I am in heaven. :-D. This is wonderful. So nice to see 6 courses, AND double stringing.on the soprano.
I love to watch the Joy on your face STILL after all these years when you play! Thanks Tim for all the great music you have given to us over the years! You are Awesome as a person and a Musician!
Damn it! Is there anything Tim cannot do?! What's left for us mere mortals to try to achieve? I mean, come on, Tim you even mastered that instrument and made something beautiful with it. OMG!!!! And THAT's your backyard??! Awwwwwwesome! You Rock, Tim! 😎😁
Crazy! I attended my first “Grandmother” ceremonies in New Mexico a year ago May. The charango features prominently in Amazonian spirituality and-between “getting well” in the bucket I’d been provided, I was mesmerized by the music and promptly ordered 4 from Charango Mall in Bolivia to give 3 to my besties and keep one. I wish you would give me lessons. Recently, after my cousin lost her infant son, I bought a 1948 Martin Tiple that sounds kind of like a tinny upright piano. I really love your videos and your energy. Thank you. Peace.
I'm on my second charango....also picked up a Tiple at a yardsale made from an armadillo shell in 1961 by a Portuguese exchange student in 61...love these instruments....the charango is like a miniature harp...I first saw one played by the Andean group Sukay...my charangos are tuned traditionally and 10 string instruments..
Tim, your comparison of the contraguitar to a piano was spot on. It sounded like someone reaching inside a piano and plucking the bass strings with a pick.
I have been playing charango since I was 15. I am not a master as I decided to play a wider breadth of musical instruments but I very much enjoy your use of the instrument and and how you have adapted it to a unique style of music. The charango does benefit from a bit more amplification, eq and effects. Spectacular and keep on playing.
Love this. Different registers. I've used electric 6 string bass and 6 string baritone guitars String guitars....---as well as Nashville Tuning/ High String acoustic guitars--These instruments open up some interesting sonic areas.
So basically, it's a chagango with the nut and bridge saddle reworked to have six courses insted of the usual five, and then tuned like a guitar. Considering how difficult actual soprano guitars are to find (and how expensive), I can see the use of that. There was a pre-existing solution, however, that I've been using for some years: the Goldtone G6 mandotar -- essentially a six-string neck fitted onto a mandolin body, and tuned like a guitar an octave up. Sounds pretty similar to what you've got there, too.
This was a treat of a video. I use contrabass guitar strings on my vintage Flamenco guitar to emulate the great Carlos Montoya who had his guitar tuned to low B and then capoed it on the 3rd fret. The sound they produce is wondrous, but I suspect the extra pressure has pulled the bridge off the soundboard. I fear I will have to revert to normal strings. You gotta have a specially built guitar whose bridge can withstand the extra kilos of pull.....brilliant video and even better playing, btw....
I have a charango set up as a 5 course mandolin. C to E and in octaves! The C is the one below standard guitar E. I love it. Didn't know there was a guitar version . Very cool and rare
Got one. You want to play Peruvian Chicu? Cmajor second position with lift offs on the A string holding down the last E. Same tuning as Island Ukulele so new flavors to those chords when you play sometimes getting that extra E on some chords. Very intuitive for creating melodies and general jamming. Classic is 5 double course.
There's a small but very interesting family of similar instruments here in South America like the Brazilian cavaquinho , the Cuban Tres or the Venezuelan Cuatro and they're super fun to play given the different string config and tuning
I have a charango. A traditional charango is tuned more or less like a ukulele with with a high E added as the first "pair". If you can play a ukulele, you can play a charango. I like the ones made more like a ukulele rather than the ones with the rounded back. They're more comfortable to play and they also tend to be better made (dried wood, no neck warping, etc). You have a very nice house by the way:)
@@clawhammer704 Peruvian Charangos are often made that way. There is a place in California called "The Pan Flute Store". You can find them online or on Ebay. Mine was called "Professional Charango "Ayacuchano" and it was $265.
Thanks, great show bud, as always very interesting to learn about new things. I agree there is a place in music for all instruments. Respect and stay healthy all
Very cool. Thanks for posting. You nailed the practicality aspect. I love and prefer the creativity that transposing introduces, but I don't record for a living!
Anybody that thumbs down Tim, uh, what are you even doing here? Lol Thanks for passing down knowledge Tim. Even this old industry dinosaur sometimes applies your imparted wisdom. Pretty cool.
I was thinking 1st of the Instrument Ronroco & the same called Album by Gustavo Santaolalla and I like the tone of the instrument, even without using my hearing aids for listenting to tone :D
I’d rather have this than a ukulele. And it does have a similar sound to a mandolin (and you don’t have to worry about transposing and learning new finger positions for all of the chords).
This is a traditional instrument from my country, never had the thought of playing it with standard tuning, the traditional tuning feels totally alien for a guitar player. Definitively gonna try it.
@@macintoshalexandcompany3903 100% how I think of it (Charango), and play it as well. (Like a standard guitar, w/capo at 5th fret... and the 3rd string doubled an octave higher with the "extra" 1st string.)
The only song I’ve come across in my listening to use the charango is the hidden track on Andrew Peterson’s second album Clear to Venus, “Land of the Free” Cool track.
Yumm, yumm, yumm! That lower-octave guitar sounds so much better than it should on paper! Is love to hear it tuned in fifths. The only thing I don't like are the "classical" tuners. I just don't understand why classical guitarists and guitar builders persist in using them, when they take a minimum of two days of constant retuning
I just picked up one of the soprano guitars. Frank is a great guy and a pleasure to work with. I apparently got the one you played in the beginning of the video, Tim (serial #3).
It would be interesting to know your choice of casual/daily headphone, and how is it different to the sound in studio or hifi system, Would love you to give opinion on everyday people headphone models n choices 🙌🏻
Becca Stevens uses this instrument to great effect in a live-from-the-studio version of her song "I Asked", accompanied by Snarky Puppy and others. Cool Gear note: nice tuxedo Bassman in the background. Very rare transition version. Blonde 6G6B circuit in Blackface cosmetics.
