Features Soundbox: White Spruce Pine halfboard Fingerboard: jacaranda Type of wood: Naranjillo Soundhole: Oval shaped Strings: Nylon Tuning Pins: Metalic Material Bridge: Los Andesn Jacaranda and bone frets. General Features: Two pieces with Andean Carving design on the Back Tuning: typically tuned GCEAE. all ten strings are tuned inside one octave. The five pairs of courses or strings are pitched as follows (from 5th to 1st course): gg cc eE aa ee.) It usually has 5 charango strings and 5 guitar strings.
Approx.Size: Lenght: 75 cm. (29.53") Widht: 25 cm. (9.84").
The ronroco is a larger relative of the charango, in Los Andes, a ronroco is an octave down from a charango, with its distinctive shape and sound is a traditional Andean stringed instrument of the lute family. Developed in Los Andes by Gonzalo Hermosa a member of the famous Group Kjarkas is well known within the musicians and string Instruments lovers. |