Requinto
As requinto in the Spanish-speaking world smaller are guitar with six strings referred, however, are tuned higher than the guitar by three to four tones.
The length of the length ranges from about 40 cm to 60 cm. The body usually has a cutaway to make it easier to play from the 12th fret and is smaller than that of the classical guitar. However, the frame is relatively wider (the body higher) in order to achieve volume. The Requinto is said to have been invented by Alfredo Gil in 1945.
The common string tuning is: A, d, g, c1, e1, a1. This makes the strings sound like a standard guitar string picked on the fifth fret. The requinto is mostly plucked and not struck.
Web links
Commons : Requinto - collection of images, videos and audio files
- The requinto guitar. Hampshire Guitar Orchestra
Individual evidence
- ↑ José Carlos Delgado Díaz: The Folk Music of the Canaries. Publicaciones Turquesa, Santa Cruz de Tenerife 2004, p. 113 ( The Requinto )