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An Uruguan publication from 1823 uses the term "changango" as a synonym for the Argentine "charango", and claims the same word was used during the eighteenth century to refer to old and poorly constructed guitars: "...In Argentina they speak of the Charango, a guitar with five doubled strings and a body made from the shell of an Armadillo.
Fretted, hollow-bodied bowl lute, usually with four or five doubled strings, with as many as eleven tunings, traditionally made from an armadillo shell charango [6] charanga, chillador: Peru: 321.321-6 Guitar-like instrument, most commonly with ten strings in two courses and made from an armadillo back chillador: 321.321 Small fretted instrument
The bodies of the lutes were traditionally made from a concha (armadillo shell). [3] Today the bowls may be made of wood and the mandolin have a flat back. mandolinos de concheros or mandolina conchera: with 4 double courses (8 strings), tuned as mandolin (g-d-a-e). [3] [4] vihuelas de concheros or vihuela conchera: with 5 double courses (10 ...
Fretted, hollow-bodied bowl lute, usually with four or five doubled strings, with as many as eleven tunings, traditionally made from an armadillo shell 321.321-6: Brazil: guitar [28] violão: Fretted six-stringed instrument with a soundboard and a hollow body, originally with steel strings, but now more commonly with nylon 321.322: Brazil ...
The Andean charango, a small 5-course, 10-string guitar frequently made from an armadillo shell, is most usually tuned in re-entrant fashion, with re-entry before and after the octave strung third course.
Among the most important European contributions were the vihuela or "Creole guitar" and the bombo legüero, and a new instrument, the charango, a European guitar similar to the tiple of the Canary Islands, made from the shell of an armadillo, of great importance for Andean northern folklore.
The viola guitar is a guitar with ten light steel strings in five courses, ... It has a bowl-back, traditionally made from an armadillo shell, ...
As a Christmas gift, engineer Hernan Rojas gave Buckingham a charango, an instrument from the Andes with triple coursed strings and an armadillo shell on the back. Buckingham retuned the charango and layered it over high-string guitars recorded at low speed and later sped up.