Object Details
- Description
- The tiple, the smallest string instrument in Puerto Rico, may be the one with the most regional variety. Small guitar or ukulele-like instruments are found throughout Latin America with the name tiple. The Puerto Rican tiple is derived from an instrument of the same name brought by settlers from the Canary Islands.
- Description (Spanish)
- El tiple es el instrumento de cuerdas más pequeño de Puerto Rico y, podría decirse, el que presenta la mayor cantidad de variaciones regionales. Es posible hallar bajo el nombre de tiple guitarras pequeñas o instrumentos similares al ukulele en toda América Latina. El tiple puertorriqueño se derivó de un instrumento del mismo nombre introducido a Puerto Rico por colonos provenientes de las Islas Canarias.
- Credit Line
- Gift of Teodoro Vidal
- early 20th century
- ID Number
- 1997.0097.1081
- accession number
- 1997.0097
- catalog number
- 1997.0097.1081
- Object Name
- tiple
- Physical Description
- wood (overall material)
- metal (part: frets material)
- Measurements
- overall: 30 cm; x 11 13/16 in
- Place Made
- Puerto Rico
- See more items in
- Home and Community Life: Ethnic
- Music & Musical Instruments
- Cultures & Communities
- Vidal
- Many Voices, One Nation
- Exhibition
- Many Voices, One Nation
- Exhibition Location
- National Museum of American History
- Title
- Tiple
- National Museum of American History
- Record ID
- nmah_602583
- GUID (Link to Original Record)
- https://n2t.net/ark:/65665/ng49ca746a4-39c7-704b-e053-15f76fa0b4fa
