משתמש:PRimaVeriTaVIV/ארגז חול/צ'רנגו (המשך)

כשהכובשים הספרדים באו לבוליביה, הם הביאו עימם את הויהולה. המידע ההיסטורי הראשון על הצ'רנגו נאסף ע"י וגה

The first historic information on the charango was gathered by Vega­ going back to 1814, when a cleric from Tupiza documented that "the Indians used with much enthusiam the guitarrillos mui fuis... around here in the Andes of Peru they called them Charangos". Turino mentions he found carved sirens representing playing charangos in some Colonial churches in the highlands of the Altiplano Peruano and Boliviano.

File #857 of The New Chronicle of Guaman Poma eloquently expresses under the suggestive title "Indian Criollos" a drawing and text representing the Indigenes of Peru playing a similar instrument. Assuming the chroniclist is not representing the actual "charango" it is very important to notice that the image he presented is dated in the early 17th century, registering the musical mestizaje of the chord instruments in Peru.

It is believed the charango came to be what it is today in the early part of the 18th century in the Andes somewhere in modern-day Peru and Bolivia (Alto Peru) probably from Amerindian contact with Spanish settlers.