A wonderful demo of our native instruments and their beautiful sounds. One thing that surprised me was that at 61 I had never seen a female playing the cuatro, it would be nice to see these skills passed along to the new generation since the use of the cuatro and tiple has all but disappeared from our beautiful heritage.
Lovely, but the fifth 'string' on the cuatro was not added to expand its range. Recent study reveals that the four-string cuatro and the ten-string cuatro were two distinct instruments, tuned and strung differently from their inception, the former deriving from 15th c. Spanish four-string instruments and the latter appearing for the first time only a century and a half ago, derived from more modern 19thc. paired-string Spanish mandolins called 'bandurrias."
The tiple is old but,I consider the boldonua is much older than those instruments is a combination of the longer guitar with a wider frets the boldonua it is the mother of the cuatro not that tiple originally not to long ago Pedro Guzman did a show with one of those instruments and master MASO RIVERA create his own different styles of instruments including the Tiple but,is not the ambassador of the cuatro and you don't need to go to NY either the ones should explain about this history are the old Luther's from center of the island those are the originally curator and origin of the instrument and modification they can explain original types of older wood for that intrument styles been made...and every Luther have their own style and sound sorry Fabiola you are only a player born yesterday and you haven't touch the island culture deep I hope I'm not wrong...in this topic which create players of our native instrument everyday...
Thank you Raymond for your comment. I invite you to read "Cuerdas de Mi Tierra" a book by music historian Juan Sotomayor, in which you can learn a bit more about our native instruments in Puerto Rico (www.cuatro-pr.org/node/331). All the information I share here comes from those resources and of course, from what I've learned from the master musicians and trovadores in Puerto Rico.
Love the Puerto Rican cuatro and tiple.
Amazingly beautiful! Thank you for sharing our beautiful and wonderful culture with the world! 🇵🇷
I enjoy and learn a lot from these videos, thanks for sharing them.
Nuestro cuarto Puertorriqueño hijo de múltiples herencias culturales.
Absolutely splendid! ¡Absolutamente espléndido!
Belleza❤
A wonderful demo of our native instruments and their beautiful sounds. One thing that surprised me was that at 61 I had never seen a female playing the cuatro, it would be nice to see these skills passed along to the new generation since the use of the cuatro and tiple has all but disappeared from our beautiful heritage.
Beautiful! Thank you for sharing this. 🙌🙌🙌
Beautiful ❤️ Music 🎶🎶 Boriquas!
SALUDITOS FABIOLA ERES LA MEJOR MUJER CUATRISTA DE PUERTO RICO 🇵🇷♥ BENDICIONES
Lovely, but the fifth 'string' on the cuatro was not added to expand its range. Recent study reveals that the four-string cuatro and the ten-string cuatro were two distinct instruments, tuned and strung differently from their inception, the former deriving from 15th c. Spanish four-string instruments and the latter appearing for the first time only a century and a half ago, derived from more modern 19thc. paired-string Spanish mandolins called 'bandurrias."
Wonderful music and very beautiful instruments
3:18 That's an Electric Cuatro, it sounds a bit like a Dan Electro 12
¡Precioso! Thank you for sharing!
must be really cool to be talented 👍🏽
Gorgeous
Habia visto este video antes pero no se me ocurrió preguntar, ¿Y la Bordonua porque no se incluyó. fabiolamendezmusic
Fantastic.
TOCO MUY BIEN EL CUATRO Y CANTA MEJOR 😊 FELICIDADES ÉXITOS.
6:08 There's the Cuatro Electrico Again.
Отлично! 🎸👍👏
👋🏻👋🏻👋🏻
Where do one learn to play such a beautiful instrument?
Go find a maestro in Puerto Rico. Really the only way to do it right.
De mi patria el cuatro puertorriqueño.
Cool.
I wonder if she is related to acildes Mendez. A famous cuatrista from 60s and 70s
The only thing about the electric cuatro is, that it looses the acoustic sound which to me is what makes el cuatro Puertoriquño so unique….
Same thing with mandolins.
Esta es Fabby Mendez quien gano Valores Juveniles?
👍🏻👍🏻👍🏻
ua-cam.com/video/Aihp_zwNiio/v-deo.htmlsi=Ptx_V9nOeO1ZuL3w Maso Rivera - the father of the Cuatro
The tiple is old but,I consider the boldonua is much older than those instruments is a combination of the longer guitar with a wider frets the boldonua it is the mother of the cuatro not that tiple originally not to long ago Pedro Guzman did a show with one of those instruments and master MASO RIVERA create his own different styles of instruments including the Tiple but,is not the ambassador of the cuatro and you don't need to go to NY either the ones should explain about this history are the old Luther's from center of the island those are the originally curator and origin of the instrument and modification they can explain original types of older wood for that intrument styles been made...and every Luther have their own style and sound sorry Fabiola you are only a player born yesterday and you haven't touch the island culture deep I hope I'm not wrong...in this topic which create players of our native instrument everyday...
Thank you Raymond for your comment. I invite you to read "Cuerdas de Mi Tierra" a book by music historian Juan Sotomayor, in which you can learn a bit more about our native instruments in Puerto Rico (www.cuatro-pr.org/node/331). All the information I share here comes from those resources and of course, from what I've learned from the master musicians and trovadores in Puerto Rico.