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Puerto Rican cuatro

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design: This box resembles a medieval keyhole, also known as cuatro cuadrao, or cuatro araña. This shape has been found on some old dotars and citolas. Four-string, eight-string and ten-string cuatros were made using this design. This was the very first design and it might be 400 years old. Sometimes
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In the 1950s, there was an effort to produce a "classical" ensemble of cuatros, with various-sized instruments taking on the role of the violins, violas, cellos, and double basses in a classical orchestra. To meet these roles cuatros of the aviolinado style were produced in four different sizes and
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dedicated to fostering the traditions that surround the national instrument of Puerto Rico, by means of gathering, promoting and preserving the cultural memories of Puerto Rican musical traditions, folkloric stringed instruments and musicians. The Cuatro Project is also dedicated to promoting and
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design: This is the rarest design. This box was shaped like an organic oval. This was because the soundboxes were made from domed gourds instead of wood. Four-string cuatros were made using this design in the 19th century in Puerto Rico by enslaved
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Very little is known about the exact origin of the cuatro. However, most experts believe that the cuatro has existed on the island in one form or another for about 400 years. The Spanish instrument that it is most closely related to is the
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design: This box looked like the antiguo design but with no straight lines and all curves and thus resembled a tulip. Eight-string and ten-string cuatros were made using this design during the 1900s near Yauco and
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There was a "cuatro antiguo" which had four single strings, then eight strings in four doubled courses, and then the modern cuatro with five double courses. Despite the name, however, the origins are not clear.
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There are three main types of cuatro: cuatro antiguo of four orders and four strings, the "Southern" cuatro of four orders and eight strings, and the cuatro "moderno" of five orders and ten strings.
361:: This is the original Puerto Rican cuatro. It was made from a single block of wood and used four gut strings. This instrument may have evolved from the vihuela poblana. It was used to mostly play 372:: 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. 1830: 1792: 404:
A plan of three cuatro body designs. From left to right, the traditional cuatro antiguo design, the "Southern" soft waisted cuatro antiguo, and the modern "aviolinado" cuatro
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design: This box resembles a violin. It is the most common shape used today. Eight string and ten-string cuatros were made using this design starting in the 19th century.
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design: This box looked like some old mandolinas made by Martin in the United States during the 20th century. However, it was first used in the 19th century in
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guitar), which had four courses, two strings each for eight strings in total as well as the Spanish Medieval/Renaissance four-course and the Spanish
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As noted, most of the instrumental variants are now rare, as are these classical groupings. There have been, however, modern efforts to revive the
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Recording of performance by Conjunto de Cuerdas Tipicas de Puerto Rico at El Romance Club, Chicago, Illinois, part 1 Chicago, Illinois
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El Cuatro Puertorriqueño (1938): Guitar player above the swamp water. The workers' quarter of Puerto de Tierra. San Juan, Puerto Rico
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means "four", which was the total number of strings of the earliest Puerto Rican instrument known by the
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on the island. Now they are made with ten metal strings and often have designs carved onto their backs.
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At least two configurations of "classical" cuatro orchestra were formed in the 1950s and 1960s:
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verse form and the traditional song as created by its greatest troubadours, living and past.
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strung for left-handed playing (with lower and thicker strings at the bottom of the picture.)
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Cumpiano, together with Sotomayor and Wilfredo EchevarrĂ­a, wrote, directed and produced two
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The cuatro is the most familiar of the three instruments which make up the Puerto Rican
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Besides these, many other lesser-known and one-of-a-kind designs also exist.
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This article is about the Puerto Rican instrument. For other uses, see
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which consisted of a various number of different string instruments:
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and Christina Sotomayor founded the Puerto Rican Cuatro Project, a
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The current cuatro has ten strings in five courses, tuned, in
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THE DÉCIMA BORINQUEÑA: An ancient poetic singing tradition
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some ten-string cuatros are still made with this design.
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An antique Cuatro (c. 1900 - 1915) on exhibit in the
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chordophone
Tiple (Puerto Rico)
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cuatro
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lute
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guitar
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