Charango Legend

Charango Legend

Charango is the national musical instrument of the Indians of Latin America. It is now made of a solid piece of wood, and earlier the armor of an armadillo served as a body-resonator. And that's why.

A long time ago, an old battleship named Kirkincho dwelt in the mountains of Bolivia. His passion was music. He spent the morning near a large cleft in the rock, where the wind played his melodies, and in the evening was in a hurry to listen to the frogs on the pond. He enthusiastically enjoyed their songs, in secret dreaming of learning how to sing the same way. But the green inhabitants of the pond only laughed at Kirkincho, calling him stupid.

One day the battleship, who spent his evening as always on the shore of the pond, saw a boy. He walked along the path past and carried a cage with canaries. How these yellow creatures of nature sang! Kirkincho was so shocked by their singing that he immediately rushed after the boy. For several hours he ran after him in order to prolong the moment of pleasure. But the boy was walking very fast - the battleship was exhausted and decided to continue the journey, after a while. He lay down on the sand to rest. Only by night Kirkincho felt full of energy, but the sound of the canaries had long since disappeared. I had to go back.

Returning home, the battleship decided to look to the Indian wizard Sebastian Mamani. “Teach me how to sing the way canaries sing,” he asked. Mamani agreed to fulfill the desire of the old armadillo, instead of asking for his life.

The next morning, Don Sebastian walked near the pond, filling the space around with an amazingly beautiful song. The frogs in amazement jumped ashore when they saw the wizard Kirkincho in their hands. Each recognized in the battleship of a talented singer. But, alas, it was a little Indian charango guitar that Sebastian Mamani made. He simply attached a wooden handle to Kirkincho's shell and pulled the strings. No magic except for the amazing sounds of music spreading over the land of Bolivia.