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!
How about a link? I can't seem to find it on the site.
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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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The nut seems cut for 6 courses. With that and the the body shape is it perhaps a Portuguese Guitar rather than a Tiple?
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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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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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