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quatro W. Indies.|ˈkwætrəʊ|
Also cuatro.
[ad. Sp. cuatro, lit. four.]
A small four-stringed guitar, of a kind originating in Latin America.
1955Caribbean Q. IV. ii. 101 The band includes a home-made banjo, a cuatro (small 4-stringed Spanish guitar)..and shac-shacs. 1958E. Borneman in P. Gammond Decca Bk. Jazz xxi. 261 The instruments used were..guitar, quatro, conga drum, bongos, maraccas, cencerro. 1965‘Lauchmonen’ Old Thom's Harvest v. 59 His guitar-pickney quatro hung over his shoulder and across his back. 1968E. Lovelace Schoolmaster i. 8 There is the orchestra..with the fiddle, and the quatros and flute and tambourines. 1974Sunday Advocate-News (Barbados) 3 Feb. 13/7 The programme is dedicated to the composers of the early tent brigade; men who made music with ‘Cuatro, bottle and spoon’. 1975S. Marcuse Dict. Mus. Instruments 135/2 Cuatro.., 1. guitar of Puerto Rico, with 5 courses of strings, 4 pairs and a single chanterelle, played with a plectrum; 2. a small guitar of Venezuela, with 4 strings. |