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    Default Leonardo Nunes tiple

    On Goodwill, already getting pricy. This builder known for guitars and ukes. I think it’s a tiple, but not sure. Great pieces of wood. Koa? Might be somewhat rare build. A few damages.
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    Wow that's unique. Manuel Nunes is one of 3 luthiers considered to be the "inventor of the ukulele", and I believe he was the first to start mass-producing them. His son Leonardo left the family company in 1917 to build instruments on his own. A lot of historic ukuleles have Douglas fir tops so it's probably fir over koa.

    Tiples have 10 strings in pairs of 3-3-2-2, looks like this is 12 string all in pairs of 2, could be some kind of Hawaiian interpretation of a portuguese guitar?

    Thanks for sharing!

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    How about a link? I can't seem to find it on the site.
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    Quote Originally Posted by Jim Garber View Post
    How about a link? I can't seem to find it on the site.
    It’s gone. Sold for almost $500. Listing was under ‘ukes’ of course, since that’s what the label said!! Plus, the fairly rare shipping gouge at about $60, so someone knew something and really wanted this thing. Nunes guitars do bring good prices, and the Hawaii origin is interesting. I would have bid had it remained a bit lower.
    The other recently mentioned tiple, needing extensive work, went over $200.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Richard500 View Post
    It’s gone. Sold for almost $500. Listing was under ‘ukes’ of course, since that’s what the label said!! Plus, the fairly rare shipping gouge at about $60, so someone knew something and really wanted this thing. Nunes guitars do bring good prices, and the Hawaii origin is interesting. I would have bid had it remained a bit lower.
    The other recently mentioned tiple, needing extensive work, went over $200.
    That’s a drag. I would have at least liked to see other photos. Did you download any others?
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    Jim, I saved the listing so here are a couple more shots. There are also closeups of a back crack and finish damage under the tailpiece, and the tuners.

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    The nut seems cut for 6 courses. With that and the the body shape is it perhaps a Portuguese Guitar rather than a Tiple?
    I am a luthier specialising in historical and world stringed instruments. You can see more info at my website.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Dusepo View Post
    The nut seems cut for 6 courses. With that and the the body shape is it perhaps a Portuguese Guitar rather than a Tiple?
    That does seem to make more sense especially from Hawaii and with twelve tuners. Come to think of it I don’t know if I have ever seen a Hawaiian tiple. Martin adapted the South American instrument to fit in with the ukulele craze back in the teens and twenties of the last century.
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    Default Re: Leonardo Nunes tiple

    Quote Originally Posted by Dusepo View Post
    The nut seems cut for 6 courses. With that and the the body shape is it perhaps a Portuguese Guitar rather than a Tiple?
    I think you might be close; check out the Filipino Rondalla instruments in the same family - the Nunez instrument looks like a laud with a round soundhole. Also, Hawaii had a large Filipino population.

    http://myphilippinerondalla.blogspot...struments.html

    https://learnfilipinorondalla.netlify.app/

    https://www.ferangeliguitar.com/prod...ck-sides-laud/

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