Chords for Canarian Timple - sound sample and tuning

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Hello everyone, I promised after I put my review up of this instrument that I would
_ Give you a bit of a sound sample as to what it sounds like because it's quite a strange tuning
this is the Canarian Timpani
_ _ all the way from the
_ _ Beautiful old town of Teguise, the old capital of the island of Lanzarote.
This is made handmade _ in the town
_ As you can see _ looks very like a ukulele _ _
strange neck
_ five strings _
_ _ And then when we turn it over you _
You really see
_ _ _ _ Something that sets it apart a very very large arch back to help the sound projection from what is a very small body
as I say very similar to the ukulele and connected in many ways possibly one of the instruments that
Made its way across the Atlantic
_ _ All the way to Hawaii _
_ _ Tuned G C E A D
_ We have a G on the what is now the fifth string C E A
And a high D string becomes the new first string, but it's also differs from a ukulele
_ In so far as it has two reentrance strings
On the standard soprano ukulele, it's common to tune the G string the fourth string
An octave higher than the natural G that would be in that position
_ _ Making it higher than most of the other strings in the case of the timpani [C] both the G and the C string are
tuned higher reentrant
An octave higher than the other strings which adds to what is a very very bright chimey sound
So the the tunings are on that fifth string we have a G a high G
The same as the high G on a soprano
And we have a high C
_ _ _ but then we have [E] the same E is on a ukulele the _ [Am] same a was on a ukulele _ _ [Em] _ and
D which isn't on a ukulele
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_ [D] _ _ [C] _ _ _ [Am] _ _
_ _ _ _ [N] _ That also means that all of the chord shapes are exactly the same
Some of them require the use of this new first string at D
Some of them don't the G for example is held in exactly the same way
But I'm not touching the the first D string and sounds like [G] _ this _
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_ [F] a C chord
Holding it at the third fret on that a string like on a ukulele, but we have to bring in the second fret [C] on the D string _ _ _ _ _
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[F] I'm not going to embarrass myself trying to play any traditional Hawaiian music because I haven't actually learned any yet, but
It's a nice sounding little thing I think _ _ _ _ _
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[F] _ _ _ _ _ we are canarian timpani _ _ _ _ _
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