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A popular way to remember the tuning of the cuatro among Venezuelan cuatro players is to play each string individually from top to bottom, while singing the words Cam-bur pin-tón in the same expected notes of the four cuatro strings. (Cambur Pintón means Ripe Banana in Venezuela. The phrase is used mainly because its four syllables are long ...
The cuatro of Venezuela has four single nylon strings, tuned A 3 –D 4 –F ♯ 4 –B 3. It is similar in shape and tuning to the ukulele, but their character and playing technique are different. It is tuned in a similar fashion to the ukulele's traditional D tuning, but the B is an octave lower.
The basic charango has five pairs (or courses) of strings, typically tuned GCEAE. This tuning, disregarding octaves, is similar to the typical C-tuning of the ukulele or the Venezuelan cuatro, with the addition of a second E-course. Unlike most other stringed instruments, all ten strings are tuned inside one octave.
Plucked string instrument with two strings and a long neck, strummed or plucked 321.322: Tuva: igil [143] Horse-head fiddle: Small fiddle: 321.322: Tuva: khomus [144] Jaw harp, made from a reed attached to a frame, plucked 121.221 Tuva: morin khuur [143] Horse-head fiddle Large fiddle with a wooden sound box and two strings attached to tuning ...
The recovery of oil prices in the early 2000s gave Venezuela oil funds not seen since the 1980s. [2] A destabilized economy led to a crisis in Bolivarian Venezuela, resulting in hyperinflation, an economic depression, shortages of basic goods and drastic increases in poverty, disease, child mortality, malnutrition, and crime. [3] [4]
Often only the top and bottom gauges are given. In this case the top string is listed first, as in the .017-.095w string set for the baritone guitar. Wound strings are shown by the suffix w added to the gauge. For example, a wound string of 32 thou diameter may be called 32w or .032w depending on whether thou or inch measure is used in the article.
Tiple (meaning the older five string Colombian instrument) Five string tiples are now relatively unknown, except for references in historic publications. The four string tiple, however, remains popular in Colombia's eastern plains and in Venezuela. The immediate predecessor of today's Colombian tiple and requinto is the eight-string tiple.
The company was founded as a machine shop by John Kluson in Chicago in 1925. [1] Kluson had previously run a machine shop for Harmony Company.Kluson Manufacturing soon found a niche making tuners for string instruments, most prominently for the Gibson Guitar Corporation, to whom they were a major supplier.