Colombian tiple
A Colombian tiple
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| String instrument | |
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| Other names | Tiple |
| Classification | String instrument (plucked, steel or copper string chordophones usually played with fingerpicking, and steel-, etc. usually with a pick.) |
| Hornbostel–Sachs classification |
(Composite chordophone) |
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The Colombian tiple (pronounced:tee-pleh) is a plucked string instrument of the guitar family typical of Colombia where it is usually played as a main instrument or as an accompanying instrument to the guitar. Is typically about three-fourths the size of a classical guitar, and has twelve strings set in four courses. It is also known as the Tiple Colombiano.
According to the RAE the word tiple denotes an acute sound (treble). It also defines tiple as guitars of very acute sound, this, however, is contradictory as today's tiple can't be classified as an instrument of acute sound. The term tiple is also considered the Spanish word for .
Little is known about the beginnings of the Colombian tiple and its use in Colombia. The first accounts exist in an article published in 1849 by Jose Caicedo Rojas; in it he narrates a story that takes place in Chitaraque, near San Gil, Santander; about some soldiers that deserted the military after they became melancholic during a night of party. In the story he describes the tiple and how it was used to sing coplas.
In his references to the tiple Rojas explains : "In New Granada we have the tiple and the bandola.They are an imitation of the Spanish vihuela". In 1923 well known musician Guillermo Uribe Holguin cites Caicedo's writing during a conference in which he criticizes the Colombian tiple as a poorer version of the Spanish guitar by saying "The tiple is a primitive form of the guitar, in other words, is a guitar without the notes E and A (...)
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