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Used Pablo Hernan Rueda Colombian Tiple Nogal (12-string acoustic guitar)
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Item Description
Serial: 24
Listed 2 months ago
This is an amazing top-of-the-line luthier built Colombian Tiple, which is sort of a 12-string guitar of sorts, particular to Colombia (there's an unrelated instrument of the same name in Cuba and Dominican Republic).
The Tiple Colombiano has four triple-courses of strings, some octave-doubled and others unison-doubled. Its tuning puts it closer to the Ukulele family as a higher-pitched instrument but it doesn't even match the Requinto Classical Guitar, so it truly is unique. A very shimmery sound but it can also dig in for solo lines. There is an even higher pitched version called the Requinto Tiple.
C.F. Martin made Colombian Tiples off and on from the 1920's through to occasionally even the present day, and in the USA they are sometimes popular in roots music, Appalachian folk, Tejano, etc.
My first introduction to the Tiple was via a low quality Paracho-made instrument (Mexico) by Paracho Elite, which had a baseball bat neck that my tiny hands couldn't grip very well, so I spent over six years searching for a top luthier in Colombia to order a high quality instrument with great ergonomics and good quality woods. This is a custom model. The serial number is 24!
Alongside the separately purchased Gator GWE-ACOU-3/4 ¾ Size Acoustic Guitar Case, this cost around $1300 or more new, and has only been played a few times in a smoke-free studio as I've had a lot of life disruptions since COVID and am now much older and realistically don't have time to develop expertise on this instrument. I wrote a few songs for it, but I will transfer those to Irish Bouzouki as the tuning is similar.
Shipping weight (after adding padding to the 20 lbs base weight of the instrument, case, and cardboard box) will likely be around 24 lbs.
Specifications:
Bracing: Ladder -- this is what flamenco/flamenca guitars use!
Body Length: 16.1875”
Lower Bout: 13”
Body Depth: 3.875”
Scale Length: 21”
Frets: 18 Medium
Nut Width: 1.75”
Neck Wood: Spanish Cedar/Walnut
Fingerboard: Pau Santo
Body/Back/Side Wood: Solid Peruvian Walnut -- this is where the Nogal term comes from in the model name
Top Wood: Solid American Pine
Neck Join: Spanish Heel -- like a classical guitar or a flamenco/flamenca guitar
Bridge: Top-Load Stringing
Tuning: C-E-A-d (Alternate Modern Tuning: D-G-B-e)
Strings: La Bella Set TPC Nickel-Plated Wound Tiple Colombiano
String Gauges: .009”/.009”/.009”, .007”/.018”w/.007”, .008”/.020”w/.008”, .010”/.025”w/.010”
I am including an extra set of La Bella strings (these are by far the best ones available) as well as the chord bible for the instrument (from the Tobe A. Richards series that covers so many unusual instruments).
The case has a bit of scuffing but that's how it arrived and I didn't want to send it back as it was a long wait due to these specialty cases not being manufactured very often. 100% top shape other than those slight aesthetic flaws, which are only on the outside.
The Tiple Colombiano has four triple-courses of strings, some octave-doubled and others unison-doubled. Its tuning puts it closer to the Ukulele family as a higher-pitched instrument but it doesn't even match the Requinto Classical Guitar, so it truly is unique. A very shimmery sound but it can also dig in for solo lines. There is an even higher pitched version called the Requinto Tiple.
C.F. Martin made Colombian Tiples off and on from the 1920's through to occasionally even the present day, and in the USA they are sometimes popular in roots music, Appalachian folk, Tejano, etc.
My first introduction to the Tiple was via a low quality Paracho-made instrument (Mexico) by Paracho Elite, which had a baseball bat neck that my tiny hands couldn't grip very well, so I spent over six years searching for a top luthier in Colombia to order a high quality instrument with great ergonomics and good quality woods. This is a custom model. The serial number is 24!
Alongside the separately purchased Gator GWE-ACOU-3/4 ¾ Size Acoustic Guitar Case, this cost around $1300 or more new, and has only been played a few times in a smoke-free studio as I've had a lot of life disruptions since COVID and am now much older and realistically don't have time to develop expertise on this instrument. I wrote a few songs for it, but I will transfer those to Irish Bouzouki as the tuning is similar.
Shipping weight (after adding padding to the 20 lbs base weight of the instrument, case, and cardboard box) will likely be around 24 lbs.
Specifications:
Bracing: Ladder -- this is what flamenco/flamenca guitars use!
Body Length: 16.1875”
Lower Bout: 13”
Body Depth: 3.875”
Scale Length: 21”
Frets: 18 Medium
Nut Width: 1.75”
Neck Wood: Spanish Cedar/Walnut
Fingerboard: Pau Santo
Body/Back/Side Wood: Solid Peruvian Walnut -- this is where the Nogal term comes from in the model name
Top Wood: Solid American Pine
Neck Join: Spanish Heel -- like a classical guitar or a flamenco/flamenca guitar
Bridge: Top-Load Stringing
Tuning: C-E-A-d (Alternate Modern Tuning: D-G-B-e)
Strings: La Bella Set TPC Nickel-Plated Wound Tiple Colombiano
String Gauges: .009”/.009”/.009”, .007”/.018”w/.007”, .008”/.020”w/.008”, .010”/.025”w/.010”
I am including an extra set of La Bella strings (these are by far the best ones available) as well as the chord bible for the instrument (from the Tobe A. Richards series that covers so many unusual instruments).
The case has a bit of scuffing but that's how it arrived and I didn't want to send it back as it was a long wait due to these specialty cases not being manufactured very often. 100% top shape other than those slight aesthetic flaws, which are only on the outside.
