The Tiple

[david moon]

There is this acoustic instrument called the Tiple. It is generally in the Uke size range, but I have seen bigger. It has 4 "courses" of strings. The lower and upper are doubled like a 12-string. The middle two have three strings tuned to the same note and different octaves. It seems to be more a Central or South American thing but Martin made them. And you can find lots of videos online.

Here's one

 

[TwoNotesSolo]

Interesting. The only tiple I have ever seen was regular guitar size (like a classical guitar or maybe parlor guitar). Some guy was busking with it and it sounded great. I called it a 12 string guitar and he corrected me that it was a tiple columbiano or something like that.

 

[Mickey Duane]

That is pretty cool. I'd like one of those

Peace