Cuatro (instrument) - Wikipedia
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.
The Cuatro | National Museum of the American Latino
The cuatro is Puerto Rico’s best-known stringed instrument. It is used mostly to play música jíbara, the island’s country music. This guitar-like instrument is unique to Puerto Rico, although it has musical cousins across Latin America.
The History of the Cuatro Guitar Instrument - TuCuatro
Jan 5, 2025 · So, what is a Cuatro Guitar or Cuatro Instrument? The Cuatro is a musical instrument belonging to the family of the Guitar, smaller in size, and using only four strings. The Cuatro is tuned A, D, F#, and B and uses nylon strings.
Puerto Rican cuatro - Wikipedia
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.
What is a Cuatro? Stringed Musical Instrument - TuCuatro
Jan 5, 2025 · The Cuatro is a four-string instrument originating in the northern areas of South American and the Caribbean. Many instruments have four strings, but this one has some very specific characteristics as far as how it looks and how it is played.
The cuatros | El Proyecto del Cuatro /The Cuatro Project
The new instrument, carrying the old name, passed into the 20th century, and largely due to the skill of a very famous cuatro player, Ladislao Martínez (Maestro Ladí) and his ubiquitous presence over early Puerto Rican radio, became our cherished modern cuatro- …
Cuatro - National Museum of American History
The modern cuatro is a five double-string guitar-like instrument used to play música jíbara, Puerto Rican country music. In this unusual example, the dried, woody fruit of the higüero tree, a material more commonly used in the fabrication of maracas or …
Ataca Yomo!”: A close-up look at Yomo Toro’s cuatro
It’s an instrument that originated in Puerto Rico and is now considered a symbol of Puerto Rican national identity. The name—“cuatro,” meaning “four”—originally referred to a stringed instrument with four single gut strings and an inverted keyhole shape.
A Short History of the Cuatro – Soundscapes
The cuatro—also the word for “four” in Spanish—was originally a four-stringed instrument roughly fashioned in the mountains and hills of Puerto Rico by the Taíno natives, European misfits, and runaway slaves who escaped to the interior beginning in the 16th century to get away from the Spanish colonists at the coasts.
The cuatro´s story | El Proyecto del Cuatro /The Cuatro Project
The Cuatro is Puerto Rico's "national instrument." Smaller than a guitar and larger than a mandolin, the cuatro's distinctive, nasal twang has been loved by Puerto Ricans since the early days of Puerto Rico's colonial past.