Requinto Strings
Small guitar, used in Spain, Columbia, Ecuador, and Mexico. In Spain the instrument is strummed. In Andean Ecuador the requinto plays the main melodic line in ensembles with one other guitar and sometimes other instruments, In Mexico it joins with the guitar in mestizo serenades. There it is tuned a 4th higher then the normal guitar. Courtesy of New Grove DMI © 1995.
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