Members sixgunner455 Posted July 6, 2010 Members Share Posted July 6, 2010 I hope this picture attaches! My wife and I are on vacation in Cozumel with some family, and we went to the music store here today, since the tropical storm we're sitting under made going to the beach kind of pointless. I was hoping that they had something decent, different, and interesting. There certainly were some things. I don't have a 100 dollar Mexican guitar, so I didn't feel like I was wasting my time, no matter what they ended up having in the store. Got this 1/2 sized guitar, but it sounds a heck of a lot better than any pint-sized instrument ought to. Like they really mean to play them. The shop owner calls this a "rey qinta", and he told me to tune the top and bottom strings to A. In other words, when tuned, it should sound like a regular guitar with a capo on the fifth fret. Sounds kind of like a ukelele, but with more body. Lots of interesting instruments in the shop. Big old guitarrons, manolins (mandolina, here), tenor ukelele, etc. Thought about getting one of the tiny little armadillo-backed things (can't remember the word), but I decided that this is different enough. Let's not get too crazy, here! There was a picture of Willie Nelson in the shop of him playing a guitar in the shop back in 1997. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members Terry Allan Hall Posted July 7, 2010 Members Share Posted July 7, 2010 Requinto Romantico...usually tuned a 5th higher than a conventional guitar and often the "lead guitar" in a mariachi group. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members Stackabones Posted July 7, 2010 Members Share Posted July 7, 2010 I've got a Lone Star Requinto. Fun instrument. Mexican guitar gets cabrito! Happy NGD. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members garthman Posted July 7, 2010 Members Share Posted July 7, 2010 Happy New Requinto Day Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members Tartanlad Posted July 7, 2010 Members Share Posted July 7, 2010 Requinto Romantico...usually tuned a 5th higher than a conventional guitar and often the "lead guitar" in a mariachi group. HNGD nice looking guitar Only one thing missing there Terry in the pic is the Hula-hoop lass in the straw skirt Mind ye a prefer to see a Mexican guy play guitar wearing the sombrero just sitting outside some bar Clint Eastwood style like in the spaghetti Westerns Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members panhandler Posted July 7, 2010 Members Share Posted July 7, 2010 Guitarista! ay ay ay !!! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members Terry Allan Hall Posted July 7, 2010 Members Share Posted July 7, 2010 HNGD nice looking guitar Only one thing missing there Terry in the pic is the Hula-hoop lass in the straw skirt Ummmm...that would be Hawaiian... Mind ye a prefer to see a Mexican guy play guitar wearing the sombrero just sitting outside some bar Clint Eastwood style like in the spaghetti Westerns Yeah, that's a valid option, too... :poke: Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members sixgunner455 Posted July 7, 2010 Author Members Share Posted July 7, 2010 Requinto Romantico...usually tuned a 5th higher than a conventional guitar and often the "lead guitar" in a mariachi group. Aha! I thought you would know exactly what it is. It's fun to noodle around on it. Strings are settling down a bit, so it's holding a tune quite a bit better than it did yesterday. Thanks for the goats and monkeys, everyone. Haven't seen any monkeys yet. Bunch of iguanas, though. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members Fendouglas Posted July 7, 2010 Members Share Posted July 7, 2010 You cannot beat a good goat senor! Happy N(Mexican)GD Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members Terry Allan Hall Posted July 7, 2010 Members Share Posted July 7, 2010 Aha! I thought you would know exactly what it is. It's fun to noodle around on it. Strings are settling down a bit, so it's holding a tune quite a bit better than it did yesterday. Found me one a few years ago and spent the 1st few months trying different string sets, hoping to find one where I could tune it E to E...no luck, so far. Thanks for the goats and monkeys, everyone. Haven't seen any monkeys yet. Bunch of iguanas, though. Iguanas are often called "pollo si los Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members DeepEnd Posted July 7, 2010 Members Share Posted July 7, 2010 Congratulations. Happy New Mexican Guitar-thing Day. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members sixgunner455 Posted July 8, 2010 Author Members Share Posted July 8, 2010 Very cute. The ones we've seen have been a bit more grey. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members Terry Allan Hall Posted July 8, 2010 Members Share Posted July 8, 2010 Very cute. The ones we've seen have been a bit more grey. Yeah, there's some color variation, depending on the sub-species... A friend has one that looks like this, although many aren't quite as vividly marked: most tend to look more like this one: Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members blue2blue Posted July 8, 2010 Members Share Posted July 8, 2010 I hope this picture attaches!My wife and I are on vacation in Cozumel with some family, and we went to the music store here today, since the tropical storm we're sitting under made going to the beach kind of pointless. I was hoping that they had something decent, different, and interesting. There certainly were some things. I don't have a 100 dollar Mexican guitar, so I didn't feel like I was wasting my time, no matter what they ended up having in the store.Got this 1/2 sized guitar, but it sounds a heck of a lot better than any pint-sized instrument ought to. Like they really mean to play them. The shop owner calls this a "rey qinta", and he told me to tune the top and bottom strings to A. In other words, when tuned, it should sound like a regular guitar with a capo on the fifth fret. Sounds kind of like a ukelele, but with more body.Lots of interesting instruments in the shop. Big old guitarrons, manolins (mandolina, here), tenor ukelele, etc. Thought about getting one of the tiny little armadillo-backed things (can't remember the word), but I decided that this is different enough. Let's not get too crazy, here!There was a picture of Willie Nelson in the shop of him playing a guitar in the shop back in 1997.Once, wandering around the back streets of Tijuana (in simpler, safer times), I stumbled into what was clearly not a tourist oriented stringed instrument shop. I think I followed in a couple of guys who had the look of seasoned mariachis. In addition to guitarrones, guitars, quatros, quintos, etc, they had this wild lute on acid thing and a bunch of other stringed instruments that I wasn't familiar with. The shop had the dark, well-seasoned, woody feel appropriate to such a business, a couple of craftsmen in the back in shop clothes. It was utterly cool. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members sixgunner455 Posted July 8, 2010 Author Members Share Posted July 8, 2010 That's cool, blue. I really wish northern Mexico wasn't so crazy nowadays. I've had a ton of fun here. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members guitarcapo Posted July 9, 2010 Members Share Posted July 9, 2010 I've got a Lone Star Requinto. Fun instrument. Mexican guitar gets cabrito! Happy NGD. I don't know what animal that is but it looks too scary human for me to want to eat. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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