10 String Puerto Rican Cuatro (Cuatro Puertorriqueno)</br>Mahogany Finished Back and Sides</br>Rosewood Fingerboard and Rosewood Bridge</br>High Gloss Natural Color Spruce Top</br>Brass frets?? Decorative Soundhole Rosette</br></br>Product Description</br></br>The cuatro is the national instrument of Puerto Rico. It belongs to the lute family of string instruments. The cuatro of Puerto Rico has ten strings in five courses?? tuned from low to high B-5th String?? E-4th String?? A-3rd String?? D-2nd and G-1st String?? Order of tuning with B and E in octaves and A?? D and G in unisons. A cuatro player is called a cuatrista. Cuatros are two distinct Latin American instruments one from Puerto Rico and the other from Venezuela. The one offered is for Puerto Rican music. Cuatros are used to play jibaro music?? salon genres?? salsa?? pop?? rock?? classical?? jazz?? and even American bluegrass and many more styles.</br><br/>http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B01COELWKG