A Taropatch Update

I posted recently about the “taropatch” ukulele. This originally meant the tenor size instrument that came from Madeira called the Rajao, 4 or 5 strings. In the late teens, we start seeing concert scale instruments with 8 strings. Martin released this model in first of theirs in 1916. Shawn from ukulelefriend.com has a Nunes instrument that is very …