Berkeley Solid Maple Guitarron w/ Bag (guitarrón mexicano)
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Berkeley
is only company make guitarron in China .
The
guitarrón (literally "large guitar" in Spanish, the suffix "-ón"
denoting "large") is a very large, deep-bodied Mexican 6-string acoustic
bass played in mariachi bands. Although obviously similar to the
guitar, it is not a derivative of that instrument, but was independently
developed from the sixteenth-century Spanish bajo de uña. It achieves
audibility by its great size, and does not require electric
amplification for performances in small venues. The guitarrón is
fretless, the strings are heavy gauge, and the action is high, so that
quite a bit of left hand strength is required.
The guitarrón is played by plucking always double string (one octave
between), which is facilitated by the unusual tuning of A D G C E A with
the high A lowered an octave putting it just one octave above the low
A. but i try to tune to Guitar EADGBE . still work in perfect
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