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Title:
Jake Wildwood - Sweet Potato Soup (a tune on tiple)
Description:
Well, I still have a cough so those new songs will have to wait. I have here, however, for you a little bit of a rambling shamble of tunes I've been working out on this excellent new instrument of mine. This is a c.1925 tiple (tee-play) built probably by Regal and sold by Bruno (out of NY) under their "Wizard" brand name. If you don't know what a tiple is... it's the coolest instrument ever this side of a banjo-uke. It looks like a tenor uke with a longer headstock and 10 tuners, but that belies the fact that it's a 10 steel string instrument in 4 courses (2 pairs and 2 triples in 2/3/3/2) tuned GCEA (like a uke) or ADF#B (like a uke). I tuned it in GCEA for this clip and you really get a mandola or bouzouk-sized bottom end in this configuration. To me, this thing sounds like a pocket 12 string, though with a definite flavor of its own. It's got an entirely huge sound for the size of the instrument. The sustain just keeps going on and on and ringing. I walk by it and it sings in my wake. Truly bizarre. I rather like the way it fills the role of several instruments: uke/guitar chording, comfortable travel size, mandolin soloing (especially on the highest course), big 12 string-style octave sound, and of course -- curiosity!
Author:
jakewildwood
Tags:
bruno, wizard, ukulele, uke, tiple, vintage, old, antique, tune, original, steel strings, regal, 1920s, 1925, restored, repaired,
Jake Wildwood - Sweet Potato Soup (a tune on tiple)
Description:
Well, I still have a cough so those new songs will have to wait. I have here, however, for you a little bit of a rambling shamble of tunes I've been working out on this excellent new instrument of mine. This is a c.1925 tiple (tee-play) built probably by Regal and sold by Bruno (out of NY) under their "Wizard" brand name. If you don't know what a tiple is... it's the coolest instrument ever this side of a banjo-uke. It looks like a tenor uke with a longer headstock and 10 tuners, but that belies the fact that it's a 10 steel string instrument in 4 courses (2 pairs and 2 triples in 2/3/3/2) tuned GCEA (like a uke) or ADF#B (like a uke). I tuned it in GCEA for this clip and you really get a mandola or bouzouk-sized bottom end in this configuration. To me, this thing sounds like a pocket 12 string, though with a definite flavor of its own. It's got an entirely huge sound for the size of the instrument. The sustain just keeps going on and on and ringing. I walk by it and it sings in my wake. Truly bizarre. I rather like the way it fills the role of several instruments: uke/guitar chording, comfortable travel size, mandolin soloing (especially on the highest course), big 12 string-style octave sound, and of course -- curiosity!
Author:
jakewildwood
Tags:
bruno, wizard, ukulele, uke, tiple, vintage, old, antique, tune, original, steel strings, regal, 1920s, 1925, restored, repaired,
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