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  2. Cuatro (instrument) - Wikipedia

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    The cuatro is a family of Latin American string instruments played in Colombia, Puerto Rico, Venezuela and other Latin American countries. It is derived from the Spanish guitar. Although some have viola-like shapes, most cuatros resemble a small to mid-sized classical guitar. In Puerto Rico and Venezuela, the cuatro is an ensemble instrument ...

  3. Mexican vihuela - Wikipedia

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    The Mexican vihuela has more in common with the Timple Canario (see: timple) due to both having five strings and both having vaulted (convex) backs. The Mexican vihuela is tuned similarly to the guitar. The difference is that the open G, the D and the A strings are tuned an octave higher than a guitar thus giving it a tenor sound or a higher pitch.

  4. Guitarrón mexicano - Wikipedia

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    A Mexican guitarrón player in a traditional Mariachi uniform. The guitarrón mexicano (Spanish for "big Mexican guitar", the suffix -ón being a Spanish augmentative) or Mexican guitarrón is a very large, deep-bodied Mexican six-string acoustic bass guitar played traditionally in Mariachi groups.

  5. Get to know the instruments behind música Mexicana - AOL

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    Diego Magaña, a member of L.A.-based band Arsenal Dorado, plays the 12-string requinto and dedicates his style to the “old-school música Mexicana” — when the guitar is “a little more ...

  6. Puerto Rican cuatro - Wikipedia

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    The eight-string "Southern" cuatro: This cuatro evolved from the old four-string cuatro. It was made like a guitar and had four pairs of steel strings. It was used to play salon genres like the mazurka, danza, waltz, polka, etc. The ten string cuatro "moderno": This cuatro evolved from the Baroque era ten string bandurria and laúd from Spain ...

  7. Conchera - Wikipedia

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    Tuned as vihuela, but in the 3rd, 4th and 5th courses, each string in a course tuned to an octave of the other string. [3] [4] [5] guitarras de concheros or guitarra conchera: with 6 double courses (12 strings). Tuned as guitar, but in the 3rd, 4th, 5th and 6th courses, each string in a course tuned to an octave of the other string. [3] [4]

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