Charango – das Instrument | Diego Jascalevich

Cha|rango [ˈtʃaːraɳɡoː] m f d

Five-string small guitar

Bolivia's national instrument

Double strings, shape and playing technique like the baroque guitar

Origin from the Spanish lute instrument "Vihuela de Mano", which came to South America during the colonial rule

Sound Body & Armadillo

Indios of the Andean highlands had to improvise when making their own instruments: they replaced the wood of the sound box – for lack of trees – with the hollowed-out shell of the native armadillo and made the strings out of animal gut

The charango found its way into the culture of the mountain peoples

Accompanying or solo instrument

The small Andean guitar is mainly used as an accompanying instrument

Popular instrument in Bolivia, Chile, Peru, Ecuador and northern Argentina

With Diego, the harp-like sounding charango gets a solo stage

DIEGOS CHARANGOS

In the course of his more than 50 years of musical life, Diego has been accompanied by around 20 different charangos – each one unique, each with its own personal and individual instrument history:

Beginning with Diego's Numero Uno, his first professionally crafted charango, made for the young Argentinian aged 12, to Diego's developed and commissioned "Gitarango," which includes guitar and Charango combined and enables a quick change.

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