What musical instrument is it?

[cestpaspossible]

A friend just gave me an instrument, guitar shaped, four string, 19 1/2 inches from bridge to nut. To me that seems too small for a tenor guitar, too big for a ukelele... what is it?

[ChoralScholar]

1. nylon or steel strings? EOM

[cestpaspossible]

3. Both

well, I don't know if that's exactly right, the two lower strings look like steel wrapped around thread ? the two upper are nylon

[ChoralScholar]

8. could be a Cavaquinho

Cavaquinho - small string instrument similar - but larger than - a ukulele. In Brazil the cavaquinho is especially associated with the chorinho and with samba, but it is also used in many other styles. It has both a percussive and a harmonic role in Brazilian music

[Zerex71]

2. A tiple?

[cestpaspossible]

4. nah those have 12 strings in 4 sets

[sakabatou]

5. Mandolin?

[purr]

6. A prim?

I dont know if thats the right spelling?

[TroubleMan]

7. Check out the bottom of this page:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/String_instrument

At the bottom it has a list of plucked stringed instruments.

[swag]

9. I would call it a baritone ukelele.

I got to play one in 7th grade music class quite a bit.

Lots of fun. Tuned like the lowest four strings of a guitar, as I recall. Not tuned like a regular old uke.

http://images.google.com/images?q=baritone+ukelele&hl=en

[Magrittes Pipe]

12. Agreed.

Looks like a baritone uke to me.

[ProfessorGAC]

14. First Thing I Thought Too, swag

The Professor

[cestpaspossible]

10. kick

[leftofthedial]

11. a bass ukelele

[johnnie]

13. Baritone Ukulele

I have one. Tune it like a guitar. D-G-B-E

[cestpaspossible]

15. Should that D be the same

as the open D on a guitar?

[johnnie]

16. Yes

Like the last 4 strings of a guitar.

[NoSheep]

17. Baratone Uke.