The term
requinto is used in both
SpanishSpanish or Castilian is a Romance language in the Ibero-Romance group that originated in northern Spain and gradually spread in the Kingdom of Castile, evolving into the principal language of government and trade in the Iberian peninsula...
and
PortuguesePortuguese is a Romance language that originated in what is now Galicia and northern Portugal. It is derived from the Latin spoken by the romanized Pre-Roman peoples of the Iberian Peninsula around 2000 years ago...
to mean a smaller, higher-pitched version of another instrument. Thus, there are
requinto guitarThe guitar is a musical instrument with ancient roots that adapts readily to a wide variety of musical styles. It typically has six strings, but four-, seven-, eight-, ten-, eleven-, twelve-, thirteen- and eighteen-string guitars also exist. The size and shape of the neck and the base of the guitar...
s,
drumThe drum is a member of the percussion group of music instruments, technically classified as a membranophone.. Drums consist of at least one membrane, called a drumhead or drum skin, that is stretched over a shell and struck, either directly with parts of a player's body, or with some sort of...
s and other instruments.
The
requinto guitar has six nylon strings with a scale length of 530 to 540 mm, which is about 18% smaller than a standard guitar scale.
Requintos made in
MexicoThe United Mexican States , commonly known as Mexico , is a federal constitutional republic in North America. It is bordered on the north by the United States; on the south and west by the Pacific Ocean; on the southeast by Guatemala, Belize, and the Caribbean Sea; and on the east by the Gulf of...
have a deeper body than a standard classical guitar (110 mm as opposed to 105 mm).
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The term
requinto is used in both
SpanishSpanish or Castilian is a Romance language in the Ibero-Romance group that originated in northern Spain and gradually spread in the Kingdom of Castile, evolving into the principal language of government and trade in the Iberian peninsula...
and
PortuguesePortuguese is a Romance language that originated in what is now Galicia and northern Portugal. It is derived from the Latin spoken by the romanized Pre-Roman peoples of the Iberian Peninsula around 2000 years ago...
to mean a smaller, higher-pitched version of another instrument. Thus, there are
requinto guitarThe guitar is a musical instrument with ancient roots that adapts readily to a wide variety of musical styles. It typically has six strings, but four-, seven-, eight-, ten-, eleven-, twelve-, thirteen- and eighteen-string guitars also exist. The size and shape of the neck and the base of the guitar...
s,
drumThe drum is a member of the percussion group of music instruments, technically classified as a membranophone.. Drums consist of at least one membrane, called a drumhead or drum skin, that is stretched over a shell and struck, either directly with parts of a player's body, or with some sort of...
s and other instruments.
Requinto guitar
The
requinto guitar has six nylon strings with a scale length of 530 to 540 mm, which is about 18% smaller than a standard guitar scale.
Requintos made in
MexicoThe United Mexican States , commonly known as Mexico , is a federal constitutional republic in North America. It is bordered on the north by the United States; on the south and west by the Pacific Ocean; on the southeast by Guatemala, Belize, and the Caribbean Sea; and on the east by the Gulf of...
have a deeper body than a standard classical guitar (110 mm as opposed to 105 mm).
Requintos made in
SpainSpain , officially the Kingdom of Spain , is a country located in southwestern Europe on the Iberian Peninsula.
[The Spanish constitution does not establish any official denomination of the country, even though España , Estado español and Nación española are used interchangeably...]
tend to be of the same depth as the standard classical.
Requinto guitars are also used throughout
Latin AmericaLatin America is a region of the Americas where Romance languages – particularly Spanish, Portuguese, and variably French – are primarily spoken. Latin America has an area of approximately 21,069,501 km² , almost 3.9% of the Earth's surface or 14.1% of its land surface area...
.
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 RicanThe music of Puerto Rico has been influenced by the United States, African, Taíno Indians, Panama, Cuba, France, the Dominican Republic and the Spanish, and has become very popular across the Caribbean and across the globe...
folk genre
plenaPlena is a folkloric genre native of Puerto Rico. Its creation was influenced by African and Spanish music.-History:The music's beat and rhythm are usually played using hand drums called panderettas or panderos or pleneras and are accompanied by a scrape gourd, guiro. Pleneras resemble tambourines...
, wherein it is a small conical hand drum that improvises over the other drum rhythms.
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