charango

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It was a pair of musicians from South America who play the charango, a small, oddly tuned lute made from an armadillo shell.

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  1. noun A ten-stringed mandolin of Andean regions with a sound box traditionally fashioned from the shell of an armadillo or tortoise, now also made of wood.

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  • Oscar began studying the guitar at the age of seven, but has since learned to play a variety of other instruments, including the Paraguayan harp, the zampona, the Venezuelan cuatroand, and the Bolivian charango. —  BC Bloggers
  • He is also known for his work as a composer and performer on Glissentar (11-string fretless guitar), electric guitar, flamenco guitar, mandolin, charango, sitar, and gamelan. —  San Francisco Sentinel
  • Maybe the Uke is like a 'gateway instrument' that will lead folks to the mandolin. you know, in my case, that's absolutely right. tuning in 4ths has - more or less - the same finger patterns. spanning 50 years or so, it was: ukulele, guitar, oud, charango ... but once i returned to the wonderful world of "small is beautiful," mandolin became the obvious next step. —  Mandolin Cafe News
  • It was a pair of musicians from South America who play the charango, a small, oddly tuned lute made from an armadillo shell. —  GoTriad Archives
  • The quintet - Gabriel Ayala (vocals / guitar), Jose Luis Amador (guitars / charango / samplers), —  miami.com -
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  1. American Spanish, from charanga, charanga; see charanga.
 

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