Avilés Vázquez Tiple
date: label: date made
content: 1999-2000
label: associated date
content: 2000-09
label: associated date
content: 2000-12-21
name: label: maker
content: Aviles Vazquez, Rafael
label: maker
content: Aviles Vazquez, Rafael
notes: label: Description
content: This tiple was made by renowned Puerto Rican luthier and educator Rafael Avilés Vázquez. Tiples are the smallest members of the family of Puerto Rican stringed instruments, which also includes cuatros and bordonúas. This example is a five string tiple doliente, a style originating in the northern mountainous region around the town of Morovis. As the cuatro overshadowed the tiple’s popularity among Puerto Rican recording artists in the first half of the 20th century, much of the tiple’s regional variation in shape, number of strings, and tuning was lost. Three other tiples in the NMAH collection (1997.0097.1076, 1997.0097.1078, and 1997.0097.1081) showcase some of these styles. In response, cultural institutions, folklorists, and luthiers in the latter half of the century focused their efforts on making the tiple doliente the standard version of the instrument to facilitate its use and preservation.
label: Description (Spanish)
content: Este tiple fue fabricado por el reconocido lutier y educador puertorriqueño Rafael Avilés Vázquez. Los tiples son los miembros más pequeños de la familia de instrumentos de cuerda puertorriqueños, la cual incluye también a los cuatros y las bordonúas. Este ejemplo es un tiple doliente, un estilo originario de la región montañosa norteña alrededor del pueblo de Morovis. A medida que el cuatro eclipsó al tiple en popularidad durante la primera mitad del siglo XX, se perdió gran parte de la variedad regional en forma, número de cuerdas, y afinación del tiple. Otros tres tiples en la colección del NMAH (1997.0097.1076, 1997.0097.1078 y 1997.0097.1081) muestran algunos de estos estilos regionales. Ante la situación, varias instituciones culturales, folkloristas, y lutieres en la segunda mitad del siglo se enfocaron en establecer al tiple doliente como la versión estándar del instrumento para facilitar su uso y preservación.
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
place: label: place made
content: Puerto Rico: Carolina
label: made at
content: Puerto Rico: Carolina
topic: label: web subject
content: Music
label: general subject association
content: Woodworking
label: decorative motif
content: Animals
label: used
content: Plastics
label: Subject
content: Folk music
label: decorative motif
content: Coquí
label: Subject
content: Música jíbara
label: Subject
content: Puerto Rican music
label: Subject
content: Stringed instruments
label: decorative motif
content: Flags
setName: label: See more items in
content: Culture and the Arts: Musical Instruments
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content: Music & Musical Instruments
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: 2001.0014.03
label: accession number
content: 2001.0014
label: catalog number
content: 2001.0014.03
objectType: label: Object Name
content: tiple
physicalDescription: label: Physical Description
content: metal (part: tuning machine heads material)
label: Physical Description
content: wood (part: sides, back, neck material)
label: Physical Description
content: yagrumo (part: top material)
label: Physical Description
content: metal (part: strings material)
label: Measurements
content: overall: 60 cm x 16.7 cm x 6.4 cm; 23 5/8 in x 6 9/16 in x 2 17/32 in
label: Measurements
content: part: scale length: 36.6 cm; 14 13/32 in