Sound box: Oregon spruce Pine
Fingerboard: Jacaranda
Type of wood: Jacaranda
Sound hole: Round
Strings: Metallic
Tuning Pegs: Metallic Material
Bridge: Bolivian Jacaranda and bone frets
Equalizer System ARTEC FSE4
Tuning: C E A D (South American version. 4th string, "C", is octaved)

Approx. Size:
Length: 92 cm (36.22")
Width: 32 cm (12.60")
Height: 12 cm (4.72").

Also believed to be a descendant of the "guitarra", is the "tiple". Although others believe it was derived from smaller "guitarrillos", also of Spain. An instrument used in Puerto Rico since the early days of the Spanish colonial era, the tiple may have 3, or 5 strings. Tuning differed widely by region. In Puerto Rico the tiple was often used for accompaniment on sacred ocassions or together with the cuatro and bordonùÀ in secular orchestras for ballroom dances such as the minuet or waltz.