Crestwood Hispanic Guitar Cuatro- San Juan

The modern, fiddle-shaped Cuatro of Puerto Rico is a twentieth century incarnation of a vaguely similar 4-string instrument that originally descended from the renaissance guitars early Spanish colonists. With 10 steel strings in 5 courses, the cuatro is strummed or picked with a plectrum. As a melody instrument, its sound might be imagined as that of a full-voiced, baritone mandolin.

• Spruce Top
• Celluloid bound fingerboard & body
• Rose wood fingerboard & bridge
• Beautiful hi-gloss, richly grained walnut back and sides

Cuatro Tuning (bass to treble, in pairs): B, E, A, D, G