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    Hi, my name is Ruskin and I live in Canary Is, Spain (closer to Africa.).I have been a Jazz,rock guitarist profesional for many years, but busking I discovered celtic mandolin.Now I´ve just bought a TC OM and really like the instrument,by the way today recieved from Thomann germany a gig bag which fits, it´s a Gewa economy line 12,1/2 size spànish guitar bag !
    I use Mc Intyre feather p/ups on acoustic mandos through a fishman pre (proEQ 2) into a Ibanez troubador 20 acoustic amp.
    Nice to meet you all !

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    Welcome Ruskin.

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    Welcome to the Café, Ruskin.

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    Welcome, Ruskin.

    Bonita colección de armas!

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    Welcome, Ruskin. Do you own and/or play the timple? A friend of mine is always interested in cousins or relatives of the ukulele.
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    Hi Jim, well I don´t,although always mess about with one when local "fiestas " are going on.I used to play "bandurria" in a tradicional folk band when I was a kid, but that is more "spanish" not "canarian".The timple has recently(last 8 years) become introduced into more modern music and has found a new glory time" ! eg. Benito Cabrera,"El Colorao",Jose >Manuel Ramos, and many others.regards .Ruskin-

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    Hi Ruskin, and welcome! Where do you live? I lived in the Canaries a long time ago, between 1977 and 1982 - first Gran Canaria, and later Tenerife - playing in the symphony orchestras. I got to visit all of the islands except La Gomera (but I could see it often from Tenerife). Those were the days!

    Hey there Jim - I happen to have acquired this in my aforementioned years. It's not a great one, but it was the best sounding timple I found for the amount I wanted to spend. (Now it's just a decoration around here - I used to "mess about with it", like Ruskin, during the local fiestas!)

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    Welcome "buskin" Ruskin!
    I guess a timple is different than a tiple?
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    bienvenuto ruskin! i've got a timple knocking around in a closet somewhere but since discovering the mandolin i - alas - rarely play it. nice instrument, though. it, or something like it, was brought to new spain centuries ago and continued to live quite happily under a variety of assumed names - "charango" being one. your godin has always been a carrot in front of my nose - love the way they look; never played one, so can't say what it sounds like.

    bratche - nice looking instrument. mine's tourist quality with poor projection ... but its diminutive size makes it big in the loveability stakes. a genuine, living, medieval dinosaur, i think. read somewhere that the timple was introduced to the canary islands by arab workers brought to work the mines.

    jim - "buskin ruskin" ... drat - you beat me to it.

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    http://farm5.static.flickr.com/4023/...7bc42b6c2b.jpg
    I have known a few from the orchestras here !....foto me on guitar & scotish fiddler in San Sebastian,vasque country.
    jim - "buskin ruskin" ... drat - you beat me to it.[/QUOTE]

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