Engineering:Leona (instrument)
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Short description: Mexican string instrument
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. 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.
File:Fígura del Balaju en leona.wav
References
- ↑ http://stringedinstrumentdatabase.aornis.com/ Stringed Instrument Database
External links
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