The timple is a typical Musical instrument with cords pinches of the Canary islands. Form of small a Guitar to four or five cords, according to the areas, with a case of resonance to the back curvature (the bump ). Towards the end of the 20th century, there exist also versions of the timple with six cords or more.
History
The timple seems to be a specific evolution of the Guitare baroque, which was introduced into the islands at the time of the Spanish conquest between 1402 and 1496. The Spaniards brought the first string instruments in the archipelago.
Organology
Dimensions
The overall length of the timple is approximately 61 cm, distributed as follows:- Head 15 cm
- Handle 20 cm (width 5cm)
- Case 26 cm
On the upper part of the case - which is tightened in its median part - one often finds a protection of the table called the golpeador . The depth of the case at the major place of the bump is approximately 8,5 cm.
Wood turpentines
Various gasolines (Cedar, Lime, Maple, Cypress, To drown,…) are used for the various parts.
Use
The timple since its introduction was integrated into all shapes of folk musics of the archipelago of the Canaries, but it is also used today in interpretations of Baroque music, and more largely in any type of musics.
Tuning
The cords are not sorted more serious towards acutest as on a guitar. In the most current shape of the instrument, with five cords, the most serious cord is the cord of semi (3rd), then the cord of ground (5th), then the cord of the (2nd), then the cord of C (4th) and finally the cord of D (1st). The five cords are inside same the octave.This specific measure is in particular shared with the Charango - which has double choruses. Their sonorities are very close. They are different only by the first chorus: the first cord of the charango is granted in double semi , on the timple it acts of a D (moreover, on the Charango, the third chorus presents a semi to the unison with the first chorus and a semi with the lower octave). This tuning is also to compare with that of the Ukulélé - the semi C ground (or a tone above) on the fourth octave, the fourth cord being also acuter than the third.
There exists another agreement of the timple, a whole tone above the principal agreement, that is to say the , D , fa# , if , semi .
There exist also timples with four cords granted in C , F , the , D or a whole tone above in D , ground , if , semi while going from the fourth cord to the first cord.
See too
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