Requinto
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The term requinto is used in both Spanish and Portuguese to mean a smaller, higher-pitched version of another instrument. Thus, there are requinto guitars, drums and other instruments.
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[edit] 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 in Spain tend to be of the same depth as the standard classical. Requinto guitars are also used throughout Latin 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.
[edit] 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.[1]
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[edit] References
- ^ Puerto Rican Bomba and Plena. Smithsonian Global Sound. Retrieved on March 10, 2007.
