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Requinto jarocho
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<h2 id="characteristics">Characteristics</h2> <p>The requinto jarocho is shaped like a guitar with a small body. The body, neck and tuning head is made from one piece of wood. It has a shallow body, and a slightly raised fingerboard. It also has 12 <a href="/facts/Frets/5vzMbyET">frets</a>.<a class="footnote-ref" id="fnref:1" href="#fn:1"><sup>1</sup></a> </p><p>The four-stringed requinto jarocho can follow the standard tuning of (ADGc), but is also commonly tuned to GADg and CDGc.<a class="footnote-ref" id="fnref:2" href="#fn:2"><sup>2</sup></a> The five-stringed requinto, however, adds a string above the standard tuning 5 half-steps below the initial first string, making it EADGc.<a class="footnote-ref" id="fnref:3" href="#fn:3"><sup>3</sup></a> </p><p>The requinto jarocho strings are made of <a href="/facts/Nylon/hBvG9bCw">nylon</a>; when played it sounds like the bottom four strings of a <a href="/facts/Classical_guitar/P1QRb2lo">classical guitar</a>. </p> <h2 id="gallery">Gallery</h2> <h2 id="references">References</h2> <ol> <li id="fn:1"><p>"Atlas of Plucked Instruments". <a href="http://www.atlasofpluckedinstruments.com/n_america.htm" target="_blank">http://www.atlasofpluckedinstruments.com/n_america.htm</a> <a href="#fnref:1" class="footnote-back-ref">↩</a></p></li> <li id="fn:2"><p>"Atlas of Plucked Instruments". <a href="http://www.atlasofpluckedinstruments.com/n_america.htm" target="_blank">http://www.atlasofpluckedinstruments.com/n_america.htm</a> <a href="#fnref:2" class="footnote-back-ref">↩</a></p></li> <li id="fn:3"><p>"Atlas of Plucked Instruments". <a href="http://www.atlasofpluckedinstruments.com/n_america.htm" target="_blank">http://www.atlasofpluckedinstruments.com/n_america.htm</a> <a href="#fnref:3" class="footnote-back-ref">↩</a></p></li> </ol>