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The Puerto Rican cuatro (Spanish: cuatro puertorriqueño) is the national instrument of Puerto Rico. It belongs to the lute family of string instruments , and is guitar -like in function, but with a shape closer to that of the violin.
A Puerto Rican Cuatro. The Puerto Rican cuatro is shaped more like a viola than a guitar, and is the most familiar [clarification needed] of the three instruments of the Puerto Rican orquesta jíbara (i.e., the cuatro, the tiple and the bordonua). The Puerto Rican cuatro has ten strings in five courses, tuned in fourths from low to high, with B ...
English: Historic model of the Puerto Rican "Cuatro," a type of guitar from Puerto Rico and Venezuela. Picture taken in the Museo de la Música Puertorriqueña.
The Puerto Rican Cuatro Project is a non-profit organization dedicated to fostering the traditions that surround the national instrument of Puerto Rico, by means of gathering, promoting and preserving its cultural memories of Puerto Rican musical traditions, folkloric stringed instruments and musicians.
The cuatro acts as an accent to the bass notes of the guitar, providing syncopation. [18] Variants of the cuatro, such as the Venezuelan cuatro and the Puerto Rican cuatro, are common throughout the Caribbean. [18] The Venezuelan and Puerto Rican Cuatros are each national instruments of their respective countries. [18]
Upon Clemente's death in a plane crash in 1971, Rivera asked a local instruments luthier to assemble a cuatro out of that same bat, which he called "bate cuatro" (bat cuatro). [1] Rivera died on February 4, 2001, in San Juan, Puerto Rico. He was buried at the Puerto Rico National Cemetery in Bayamón, Puerto Rico. During his lifetime, he had ...
Puerto Rican-cuatro players (5 P) Pages in category "Puerto Rican musical instruments" The following 5 pages are in this category, out of 5 total.
Puerto Rican tiple; Torban (Ukraine) Tovshuur (Mongolia) Tremoloa. Hawaiian tremoloa; Tres (Cuba) Cuban tres (Cuba) Puerto Rican Tres (Puerto Rico) Tricordia (Mexico) Tritantri vina; Tungna; Tzouras (Greece) Ukulele (Hawaii) Banjolele; Baritone ukulele; Bass ukulele; Concert ukulele; Taropatch (a.k.a. lili'u) Tahitian ukulele (Tahiti) Tenor ...