{{Short description|String instrument}} {{Confused|text=the tiple, also a stringed instrument}} {{Refimprove|date=February 2008}} 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 of the 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 island and in the north of the island of Tenerife, many timple players omit the first (D) string, in order to play the timple as a four-string 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 (Lanzarote), Germán López (Gran Canaria), José Antonio Ramos, Totoyo Millares, and Pedro Izquierdo (Tenerife).
==See also== *Tiple
==References== {{Reflist}}
==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