Tamburica / Tamburitza ? Parts ?

[Wudwerkr]

I have picked up the following Croation Instrument and will be looking for parts as I work on it . NO HURRY this one will be time in the making . I would appreciate any suggestions , or notice from people who have parts or may know where a good place to start looking is .

Thanks Wud

wiksnwudwerks@aol.com

[Jim Garber]

Are you sure this is a tamburitza? It looks like a guitar with a "in-line" headstock. AFAIK these instrument s rarely have six single strings. Usually some courses are doubled.

[Rick Schneider]

Hmm, doesn't look like any tamburica I ever played? Jim I you are correct, maybe 5 strings (highest doubled) sometimes 6 strings (with the highest two courses doubled). That being said, this was a system created after WWII called Jankovic with 3 courses doubled tuned in fifths. It seems that the pros didn't really accept it and that system kind of never made it. Just my 2 cents.

[mrmando]

Looks like a copy of a CF Martin Stauffer guitar.

[Nevin]

Six in line headstocks wer common on German and Austrian guitars near the end of the 19th Century. Stauffer and early C.F. Martin guitars had them but they were far from the only ones.