al contrario... those early music enthusiasts who first introduced the charango prototype to the new world (most probably a citole: http://www.crab.rutgers.edu/~pbutler/citole.html) would have been playing something carved from a single piece of wood. turtles may have been a source of inspiration for the first really, really...i mean extremely "early" music enthusiasts in europe but then, i think, we'd be speculating on iron age ingenuity.
the charango (imho) is european in origin - call it what you will - and well suited for early music. what people in peru or elsewhere choose to play on it, however, is entirely up to them. chow... - bill On Mercoled�, ago 11, 2004, at 14:18 Europe/Rome, Eugene C. Braig IV wrote: > This is, of course, largely a group of earl music enthusiasts. The > earlier > charangos tended to favor a more vertebrate-based bowl construction. I > have no idea at what temperature armadillo hide begins to break > down...I > don't think I want to find out. > > Eeew, > Eugene > > At 04:32 AM 8/11/2004, bill wrote: > >> of course, one can side-step the dilemma altogether by simply >> switching >> to a charango - made from one, solid piece of wood - and reduce the >> number of constitute parts to your instrument requiring glue. >> >> hola! - bill >> >> >> On Mercoled�, ago 11, 2004, at 06:44 Europe/Rome, Jon Murphy wrote: >> >>> Agree with all on the glues, the creep can be a problem with the >>> newer >>> glues - but as has been said before the "heat breakdown" does make it >>> easier >>> to repair and instrument. But when you really get down to it, how in >>> the >>> hell are you going to allow your instrument to reach 200 degrees? >>> (I've made >>> that mistake with a harp, and fixed it, but never again). Two hundred >>> degrees (which can be reached rather quickly in a closed car in the >>> summer >>> sun) would kill your cat, dog or toddler. Are you going to subject >>> your >>> instrument to such temperatures. >>> >>> I make golf clubs (among other things), and use an epoxy that breaks >>> down at >>> about 220 degrees (but they don't absorb the ambient temperature as >>> quickly >>> as wooden instruments). The choice of the glue comes from the need to >>> break >>> down the joint to replace a broken shaft, and not need to overheat >>> the >>> club >>> head. BTW, I use a "heat gun" that produces 500 degrees or 1200 >>> degrees, but >>> don't use it too closely - so as not to melt the graphite - it is a >>> bit of >>> an art to get it right. >>> >>> Best, Jon >>> >>> >>> > > >
