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  2. Puerto Rican cuatro - Wikipedia

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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.

  3. Cuatro (instrument) - Wikipedia

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    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 ...

  4. William R. Cumpiano - Wikipedia

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    William Richard Cumpiano (born April 30, 1945) is a builder of stringed musical instruments and is known for his writing and teaching of the art of luthiery.He has been involved in the preservation and understanding of the fading musical and musical craft traditions of his native Puerto Rico.

  5. Ernesto Cordero (musician) - Wikipedia

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    Cordero has composed a large catalogue distinguished by its Caribbean flavor. He has written eight concertos (four for guitar, two for violin, one for flute/piccolo and one for the Puerto Rican cuatro), orchestral compositions, a variety of chamber works in which the guitar appears in diverse ensembles, and numerous guitar solos, some of which have become standards.

  6. Tomás Rivera Morales - Wikipedia

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    Tomás Rivera Morales, [note 1] simply known as "Maso Rivera" (November 13, 1927 – February 4, 2001), was a Puerto Rican musician and a major exponent of Puerto Rico's Jíbaro music. Rivera composed over 1,000 instrumental compositions for the Cuatro, Puerto Rico's national instrument.

  7. Edwin Colón Zayas - Wikipedia

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    Edwin Colón Zayas (October 27, 1965), is a Puerto Rican cuatro player from Puerto Rico.He joins a large number of Puerto Rican artists, "innovative tradition-bearing," [1] who focus their talents in extolling the virtues of the Puerto Rican creole and Jíbaro way of life.

  8. List of string instruments - Wikipedia

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    Guitarra portuguesa (Portuguese guitar) Rajao; Viola amarantina; Violão baixa; Viola beiroa; Viola braguesa; Viola campaniça; Viola de arame; Viola de fado; Viola toeira; Puerto Rico: Bordonúa; Cuatro (Puerto Rican cuatro) Tiple (Puerto Rican tiple) Tres (Puerto Rican tres) Romania: Cobza; Kontra; Horn-violin; Russia (see also Tuva ...

  9. Vicente Carattini - Wikipedia

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    A cuatro is a Puerto Rican stringed instrument somewhat similar to a guitar but smaller in size. The Puerto Rican cuatro has five pairs of strings for a total of ten, and is different from the cuatro in other Latin American countries (for example, the Venezuelan cuatro actually has four strings). At the age of nine, Carattini learned how to ...