The charango I play has a mouth and can talk.
Traditional saying
It’s only missing eyes to help me cry.
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Buying a Charango: What You Need to Know
Buying a charango: a practical guide The charango is a widely popular instrument in South America, especially in the Andean states, but finding one abroad can be quite challenging. This…
How to tune a Charango
Introduction: how Charango tuning works One of the most distinctive features of the charango is its many strings. In its standard version, it has ten strings, with eight of them…
Training third intervals on Charango
The tuning of the charango allows for some very interesting and expressive melodic devices. In traditional Andean music, for example, there is an intense use of melodies harmonized in thirds.…
Learning the charango with the masters
Aprendiendo con maestros: learning Charango with the masters During a study trip to Bolivia in the spring of 2022, I had the great pleasure of spending a few days in…
Testing Aquila Sugar Strings on a charangón: the video
The Crucial Importance of Strings for the Charango In this article, I want to share with you an interesting experiment I conducted: changing a set of strings on a high-quality…
Half a century with the Bolivian Charango Society: a documentary
On 6 April 1973, the Sociedad Boliviana del Charango (SBC) was founded in La Paz, Bolivia. The names of the founders were already well known, but over the years they…
What is a Charango
Las cuerdas de mi Charango traducen mis sentimientos: cuando estoy contento ríen, cuando estoy con pena lloran
José Prudencio Bustillo (1922)
The charango is a stringed musical instrument of…
Essential Guide to Charango Pricing
The price of a charango depends on a number of factors, which relate first and foremost to the type of instrument, but also to the materials from which it is…