# Timple

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{{Short description|String instrument}}
{{Confused|text=the [tiple](/source/tiple), also a stringed instrument}}
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thumb|left|Traditional timple at the Casa Museo Del Timple, Lanzarote, Spain.
thumb|right|upright|Timple seen from front
thumb|left|Traditional timple at the Casa Museo Del Timple, Lanzarote, Spain.
thumb|right|upright|Timple seen from side

The '''timple''' is a traditional five-string [plucked string instrument](/source/plucked_string_instrument) of the [Canary Islands](/source/Canary_Islands).<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://stringedinstrumentdatabase.aornis.com/t.htm|title=The Stringed Instrument Database: T|website=Stringedinstrumentdatabase.aornis.com|access-date=20 April 2021}}</ref> It started being manufactured in the 19th century.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.hellocanaryislands.com/canary-islands-timple/|title=The Canary Islands timple|date=10 November 2017|website=Hellocanaryislands.com|access-date=20 April 2021}}</ref>

In [La Palma](/source/La_Palma) island and in the north of the island of [Tenerife](/source/Tenerife), many timple players omit the first (D) string, in order to play the timple as a four-string [ukulele](/source/ukulele), though this is considered less traditional by players and advocates of the five-string version. The players of the four-string style, in return, say that they are simply playing the timple in the old-fashioned way from before the time when a fifth string was introduced in the late nineteenth or early twentieth century.{{Citation needed|date=December 2008}}  The common tuning is GCEAD.

Notable timple players (''timplistas'') are [Benito Cabrera](/source/Benito_Cabrera) ([Lanzarote](/source/Lanzarote)), Germán López ([Gran Canaria](/source/Gran_Canaria)), [José Antonio Ramos](/source/Jos%C3%A9_Antonio_Ramos), [Totoyo Millares](/source/Totoyo_Millares), and [Pedro Izquierdo](/source/Pedro_Izquierdo) ([Tenerife](/source/Tenerife)).

==See also==
*[Tiple](/source/Tiple)

==References==
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==External links==
*{{Cite web|url=https://casadeltimple.org/|title=Casa-Museo del Timple – Teguise, Lanzarote, Canary Islands, Spain|website=Casadeltimple.org|accessdate=20 April 2021}}

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Category:Guitar family instruments
Category:Canarian musical instruments

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