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Legend has it that the armadillo has to go to a conservatory for five years to study to become a charango."
The charango is a bowl-backed lute originating in Peru. Charango history causes much debate among historians, academics and traditional players throughout Peru and Bolivia. There is little verifiable documentation on the charango. Most of its lore exists in oral history fraught with jokes, myths, and "tall tales" developed by Andean charango players over the centuries. Even the charango's small size and bowl construction, of either wood or an armadillo shell, is fodder for politically charged jokes in Peruvian history.
Instructions
1. Place the strings on your work surface progressing left to right in the following order: G/G, C/C, e/E, A/A, E/E.
2. Determine the winding and unwinding direction of each of the 10 tuners. Place the string winder on the lowest tuner on the left side of the neck. Unwind the tension from the string. Remove the string from the tuner and tailpiece. Repeat for the other nine strings.
3. Work clockwise around the headstock to keep your restring organized and simple.
Place the end of the G string through the left-most hole in the tailpiece. Pull the string up the length of the neck. Place the end of the string through the hole in the lowest tuner on the left side of the headstock. Repeat with strings and tuners progressing clockwise around the headstock in the following order: G, C/C, e/E, A/A, E/E.
4. Pull the string taught though the tuner. Wind the tuner three turns. Check to assure the string holds tension around the tuner.
5. Use the tuner to properly tune each of the strings.
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