Description: The ronroco is a 10 stringed lute found in Peru and Bolivia tuned a fifth below the charango. In parallel it could be compared as the mandola is to the mandolin. The ronroco is played either solo or with other instruments, charango, guitar and percussion.

Anatomy of the Ronroco: The body of my specimen [ronroco] is hand carved from a tree trunk. The neck of my ronroco is made from the same tree trunk as the body, accept for the head stock which is a separate piece. The neck is of some ironwood, rosewood, slightly angled strips of bamboo are inserted vertically into the fingerboard for ornamentation. A sound hole is drilled into the ronroco's neck as an acoustic means to amplify the instrument. On the front of the sound board its cut from two pieces of wood a hardwood and what appears to be pine. The same string-set available for charango may also be used for the ronroco.