Talk:Timple

Talk:Timple The suggestion on the Timple page is to merge with the Tiple page. The Timple is a small 5-string instrument, tuned similarly to the Rajao. Suppposedly it migrated to the Canary Islands and then to Murcia from N Africa in the 16th century. If the Timple page were to be merged, wouldn't the Ukulele page make more sense, being perhaps more derivative of the Timple than the 12-string Columbian Tiple. Ebig 21:11, 3 June 2007 (UTC)
 * the merging doesn't seem appropriate, even though the tiple (or one of the tiples) might be an evolution based on the timple, it is definitely a different instrument, with a very different history ; moreover, the timple is structurally different from both the tiples (columbian and puerto-rican) and the ukulele. The braguinha (ukulele ancestor) and the timple may have a common ancestor, but as the guitar does, thus IMHO the timple is not to be classified as a ukulele.Ukepedia 09:21, 13 October 2007 (UTC)

Can you clarify the tuning please: your stave shows GCFAD (F6/9), but you say the common tuning is GCEAD (C6/9), and I believe this to be correct. There also seems to be an ADF#BE version, much like the old-style soprano uke, but the tenor(?) timple uses the tuning DGBEA, unlike a tenor uke. Also, you say the fifth string is D. Usually we refer to the string closest to the ground as the first string. Also, you might like to expand on the differences between timple stringing and uke stringing, since the strings are not in the same order. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 86.173.76.201 (talk) 08:13, 3 April 2012 (UTC)