Matches in DBpedia 2014 for { ?s ?p The Puerto Rican cuatro 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. The word "Cuatro" means "Four" which was the total of strings of the very first Puerto Rican Cuatro. The current cuatro has ten strings in five courses, tuned from low to high B3 B2♦E4 E3♦A3 A3♦D4 D4♦G4 G4. (note that the bottom two pairs are in octaves, while the top three pairs are tuned in unisons). The cuatro is the most familiar of the three instruments which make up the Puerto Rican jibaro orchestra (the cuatro, the tiple and the bordonua). A cuatro player is called a cuatrista.Note that cuatro is a name also applied to a number of other somewhat differently-configured instruments, including the Venezuelan Cuatro, the Cuban cuatro and some small Spanish instruments.. }
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- Puerto_Rican_Cuatro abstract "The Puerto Rican cuatro 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. The word "Cuatro" means "Four" which was the total of strings of the very first Puerto Rican Cuatro. The current cuatro has ten strings in five courses, tuned from low to high B3 B2♦E4 E3♦A3 A3♦D4 D4♦G4 G4. (note that the bottom two pairs are in octaves, while the top three pairs are tuned in unisons). The cuatro is the most familiar of the three instruments which make up the Puerto Rican jibaro orchestra (the cuatro, the tiple and the bordonua). A cuatro player is called a cuatrista.Note that cuatro is a name also applied to a number of other somewhat differently-configured instruments, including the Venezuelan Cuatro, the Cuban cuatro and some small Spanish instruments.".