- Requinto
The term requinto is used in both Spanish and Portuguese to mean a smaller, higher-pitched version of another instrument. Thus, there are "requinto"
guitar s,drum s and other instruments."Requinto" guitar
The "requinto" guitar is a six-string nylon guitar with a scale length of 530 to 540 mm, which is about 18% smaller than a standard guitar scale.
"Requintos" made in
Mexico have a deeper body than a standard classical guitar (110 mm as opposed to 105 mm). "Requintos" made inSpain tend to be of the same depth as the standard classical. "Requinto" guitars are also used throughoutLatin America ."Requintos" are tuned: A-D-G-c-e-a.
The "requinto" was invented for use in the
guitar orchestra , which usually consists of two "requintos", two standard guitars, two "bajas ", and occasionally a bass or two. The "bajas" and "requintos" were designed to have a different tuning in relevance to the different tunings of string instruments in the string orchestra. The standard guitar would represent the viola, and in contrast, the "requinto" represents the violin and the "baja" represents the cello, whilst the bass is the bass."Requinto" drum
The "requinto" drum is used in the Puerto Rican folk genre "
plena ", wherein it is a small conical hand drum that improvises over the other drum rhythms. [cite web|title=Puerto Rican Bomba and Plena|work=Smithsonian Global Sound|accessdate=March 10|url=http://www.smithsonianglobalsound.org/archives_03.aspx|accessyear=2007]ee also
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Cavaquinho References
External links
* [http://www.hago.org.uk/guitars/requinto/ The requinto on Hampshire Guitar Orchestra website]
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