Talk:Timple

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Talk:Timple The suggestion on the Timple page is to merge with the Tiple page. The Timple is a small 5-string instrument, tuned similarly to the Rajao. Suppposedly it migrated to the Canary Islands and then to Murcia from N Africa in the 16th century. If the Timple page were to be merged, wouldn't the Ukulele page make more sense, being perhaps more derivative of the Timple than the 12-string Columbian Tiple. Ebig 21:11, 3 June 2007 (UTC)

the merging doesn't seem appropriate, even though the tiple (or one of the tiples) might be an evolution based on the timple, it is definitely a different instrument, with a very different history ; moreover, the timple is structurally different from both the tiples (columbian and puerto-rican) and the ukulele. The braguinha (ukulele ancestor) and the timple may have a common ancestor, but as the guitar does, thus IMHO the timple is not to be classified as a ukulele.Ukepedia 09:21, 13 October 2007 (UTC)