Editing Tiple (section)

==Other versions==

===U.S. ''/'' N. American ''/'' Martin tiple===
The North American tiple was designed in 1919 by the Pennsylvania guitar company [[C.F. Martin & Co.]] for the William J. Smith Co. in New York and was most popular through the 1920s-1940s ukulele craze. This tiple is close in length to a tenor ukulele, but with a deeper body. Unlike a ukulele, it has ten steel strings in four mixed-octave courses of 2, 3, 3, and 2 strings. 
Manufactured for a half century, the Martin tiple was used in jazz, blues and old-time country bands, and as a louder-volume ukulele. 
It was tuned similarly to a D-tuned ukulele:

:A4 A3 • D4 D3 D4 • F#4 F#3 F#4 • B3 B3 (wound octave-lower strings are A3, D3, and F#3).
Ohana, a more recent manufacturer of similar instruments, recommends tuning their copies of the Martin a full tone lower, as mentioned below, similar to contemporary ukuleles.

Martin produced mahogany and rosewood bodied tiples, following a model-identification system similar to its guitars: T-15 and T-17, mahogany top, back and sides; T-18, spruce top, mahogany back and sides; T-28, spruce top, rosewood back and sides; T-45, spruce top, rosewood back and sides, fancy abalone inlay. Martin's tiple production continued off-and-on into the 1970s.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://martintiple.blogspot.co.uk/2011/11/martin-tiple-t-17-t-15-models.html |title=Martin tiple T-17 & T-15 models |date=November 2011 |website=martintiple.blogspot.co.uk}}</ref>
[[Image:Martin tiple.jpg|thumb|right|250px|Martin tiple]]
Similar instruments were made by Regal, Harmony, Lyon & Healy, Oscar Schmidt, D'Angelico and other companies during the early decades of Martin production.<ref>{{cite web |url=https://jakewildwood.blogspot.com/search?q=tiple |title=tiple |website=jakewildwood.blogspot.com}}</ref>

In the 21st&nbsp;century, the Ohana ukulele company began manufacturing an all-mahogany tiple similar to the Martin, but calling it "a vintage ukulele inspired by the Columbian (sic) Tiple." The company recommended tuning with the lowest note a C.
(G3 G4 – C4 C3 C4 – E4 E3 E4 – A4 A4)<ref>{{cite web |url=https://ohana-music.com/product-tag/tiple/ |title=tiple |website=ohana-music.com}}</ref>

In addition to its original ukulele-style tuning (above), the American tiple sometimes has been tuned like the upper four courses of the guitar, presumably with special sets of strings.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://martintiple.blogspot.com/p/tunings-strings.html |title=tunings-strings |website=martintiple.blogspot.com}}</ref>

;Martin tiple dimensions:<ref>{{cite web |url=https://umgf.com/is-one-of-the-martin-ukulele-bodies-the-same-size--t181709.html |title=Is one of the Martin ukulele bodies the same size? |id=t181709 |website=umgf.com|date=3 October 2016 }}</ref>
 
:Overall '''length''': &nbsp; {{frac|27&nbsp;|1|4}}″

:Body '''length''': &nbsp; {{frac|12&nbsp;|1|16}}″

:Bout '''width''', upper: &nbsp; {{frac|6&nbsp;|5|8}}″
:Bout '''width''', lower: &nbsp; {{frac|8&nbsp;|15|16}}″

:Body '''depth''', upper: &nbsp; {{frac|3&nbsp;|1|16}}″

:Body '''depth''', lower: &nbsp; {{frac|3&nbsp;|9|16}}″

:Neck '''width''' at nut: &nbsp; {{frac|1&nbsp;|1|2}}″
:Fingerboard '''width''': &nbsp; {{frac|1&nbsp;|3|4}}″ at 12th fret

:Sound hole '''diameter''': &nbsp; {{frac|2&nbsp;|5|8}}″
:Scale '''length''': &nbsp; 17″

'''North American tiple performers''':
*Four Virginians<ref>{{cite web |url=http://boblog.blogspot.com/2017/05/four-virginians-with-tiple.html |title=Four Virginians with tiple |website=boblog.blogspot.com|date=9 May 2017 }}</ref>
*[[Cats and the Fiddle]]
*[[Spirits of Rhythm]]
*[[Timmie Rogers]]
*[[Ed Askew]]
*Golden Melody Boys, aka Georgia Melody Boys<ref>http://oldtimeblues.net/tag/golden-melody-boys/#:~:text=The%20Golden%20Melody%20Boys%E2%80%94Dempsy,November%204%2C%201892%20in%20Illinois.</ref>

===Electric tiples===

Electric tiples usually follow either the Colombian (12-string) or "Martin" (10-string) tuning and string arrangement.