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Pages in category "Puerto Rican musical instruments" The following 5 pages are in this category, out of 5 total. This list may not reflect recent changes. B.
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 ...
The Bordonua (Bordonúa) is a large, deep body (sound-boxes are usually 6 inches (15 cm) deep) bass guitar which is native to Puerto Rico. They are made using several different shapes and sizes. The Bordonúa is the least common of the three stringed instruments that make up the Puerto Rican orquesta jibara (i.e., the cuatro, the tiple and the ...
This list contains musical instruments of symbolic or cultural importance within a nation, state, ethnicity, tribe or other group of people.. In some cases, national instruments remain in wide use within the nation (such as the Puerto Rican cuatro), but in others, their importance is primarily symbolic (such as the Welsh triple harp).
The güiro is commonly used in Cuban, Puerto Rican, and other forms of Latin American music, and plays a key role in the typical rhythm section of important genres like son, trova and salsa. Playing the güiro usually requires both long and short sounds, made by scraping up and down in long or short strokes. [1]
Additional instruments include the cuá, a hollow small wooden barrel which is struck with wooden sticks, and most commonly a maraca. Cuá - wooden sticks are used on a wooden surface to draw a basic rhythmic pattern, similar to the buleador pattern. The wooden surface can be a lying barrel, a piece of hollowed tree or a bamboo, open at both ends.
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 ...