Tiple
date: label: Date made
content: early 20th century
notes: label: Description
content: The <i>tiple</i>, 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 <i>tiple</i>. The Puerto Rican <i>tiple</i> is derived from an instrument of the same name brought by settlers from the Canary Islands.
label: Description (Spanish)
content: 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.
place: label: Place Made
content: Puerto Rico
title: label: Title
content: <i>Tiple</i>
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content: Home and Community Life: Ethnic
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content: Music & Musical Instruments
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content: Cultures & Communities
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content: Vidal
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content: Many Voices, One Nation
label: Exhibition
content: Many Voices, One Nation
label: Exhibition Location
content: National Museum of American History
creditLine: label: Credit Line
content: Gift of Teodoro Vidal
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: 1997.0097.1081
label: accession number
content: 1997.0097
label: catalog number
content: 1997.0097.1081
objectType: label: Object Name
content: tiple
physicalDescription: label: Physical Description
content: wood (overall material)
label: Physical Description
content: metal (part: frets material)
label: Measurements
content: overall: 30 cm; x 11 13/16 in