leona
Illustration — Leona. The leona is a guitar-shaped fretted stringed instrument, from the state of Veracruz, Mexico. It has four strings and is a low pitched instrument in the son jarocho string family of instruments.
leona
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- guitar · son jarocho instrument · chordophone
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- Mexico
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Illustration — Leona. The leona is a guitar-shaped fretted stringed instrument, from the state of Veracruz, Mexico. It has four strings and is a low pitched instrument in the son jarocho string family of instruments.
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The león or vozarrona, bigger than the former, is the lowest instrument in son jarocho genre. The body of a leona is traditionally carved from a single piece of wood (traditionally Spanish cedar) and it is then hollowed out, with a separate soundboard and fingerboard applied. Other Mexican and South American folk guitars derivative of Spanish instruments are also made this way, notably the charango of Bolivia. • Illustration — Sound example of leona instrument
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- Gemeinsame Normdatei 135316073, Leona.
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- Getty Union List of Artist Names 500506802, Abel, Leona.
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- Wikidata, structured authority record Q6524983: leona
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Mitchell, Leona (opera), Oxford Music Online, 2002
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Gemeinsame Normdatei 135316073, Leona.Deutsche Nationalbibliothek
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Getty Union List of Artist Names 500506802, Abel, Leona.The Getty Research Institute
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