Ledward told me that one of his Aunties back in Kalapana featured a tiple as her musical contribution to the legendary house parties of his youth.
It really came to life when Hawaiian slack key and `ukulele master Ledward Kaapana showed up at our house. At time it sounds like a 12 string guitar, sometimes like a mandolin, or a Tahitian banjo. The sound of this little box is pretty amazing. I can’t tell if the wave is flame figure or saw marks. It’s easy to see why people fall under the spell of old Martins.
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I’ve seen tiples as early as 1925 and as late as the 1970s, this one is from 1949 according to the serial number database on the CF Martin site. Martin built these instruments in their common styles of 15/17 (mahogany top, back and sides), 18 (spruce top, mahogany back and sides), and 28 (spruce top, rosewood back and sides). The instrument I received from my Ebay seller has been loved pretty hard and had a fair amount of repair work along the way, but the cost reflected that so I’m happy with the result.
There’s something about the organic glow of a fine vintage instrument, the battle scars contribute to the feeling that this is a special object, simply by having survived. But we discovered that it plays and tunes better one step higher in a D6 tuning of A D F# B. I started off tuning this tiple like a modern tenor uke, G C E A or C6 tuning. I’ve learned a lot about the Martin Tiple by visiting Uncle Emile’s Blog, The Martin Tiple.
Now the “tiple” is one of a number of smallish stringed instruments played throughout the Spanish and Portuguese speaking world, where the word is pronounced “teeplay.” But a Martin Tiple is a strange member of the `ukulele family, an instrument that was vitally important to the CF Martin company in their history. Then I ran across an Ebay auction for a Martin Tiple. But over the past few years I’ve tried to go straight, stick with the instruments I have and definitely stay away from oddball stuff that once called out to me. It’s a common ailment among my peers, and probably one of the less damaging addictions one might suffer. At various times in my life I’ve surrendered to the urge to collect musical instruments.
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