guitalele
Sign in to saveA guitarlele (sometimes spelled guitalele or guilele), is sometimes also called by brands name such as a ukitar, or kīkū, is a guitar-ukulele hybrid, that is a tenor or baritone ukulele body size, and a cross between a classical guitar and a tenor or baritone ukulele. The guitarlele combines the portability of a ukulele, due to its small size, with the six single strings and resultant chord possibilities of a classical guitar. It may include a built-in piezo saddle element pickup and equalizer preamp that permits playing the guitarlele either as an acoustic guitar or connected to an amplifier.
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It is catalogued under topics including Guitars and Ukuleles.
Its subject is documented across 13 Wikipedia language editions.
Key facts
- Instrument.name
- Guitarlele
- Instrument.names
- Guitarlele, Guilele, Ukitar, Soprano Guitar, Petite Guitar, Kīkū'
- Instrument.image
- Guitarlele_and_case.jpg
- Instrument.classification
- String instrument
- Instrument.related
- Classical guitar, Tenor ukulele, Requinto
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Wikidata facts
- Subclass of
- Plucked string instrument
- Has part
- guitar
- Image
- Guitalele.jpg
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- Hornbostel-Sachs classification
- 321.322
- Commons category
- Guitalele
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Encyclopedic overview
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A guitarlele (sometimes spelled guitalele or guilele), is sometimes also called by brands name such as a ukitar, or kīkū, is a guitar-ukulele hybrid, that is a tenor or baritone ukulele body size, and a cross between a classical guitar and a tenor or baritone ukulele. The guitarlele combines the portability of a ukulele, due to its small size, with the six single strings and resultant chord possibilities of a classical guitar. It may include a built-in piezo saddle element pickup and equalizer preamp that permits playing the guitarlele either as an acoustic guitar or connected to an amplifier. The guitarlele is variously marketed (and used) as a travel guitar or children's guitar.The Guitarlele was introduced by Yamaha in 1997 and is the first commercially produced instrument of its kind. Many people mistakenly claim that it’s based on earlier instruments like the requinto or Quint guitars, but it is not the same in size or timbre.
The requinto does not sound like the guitarlele, since its body is much larger. The same holds true for the 18th-century “quint” guitars.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “guitalele” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.