plucked instrument of the Renaissance with a guitar-shaped body, strings tuned like those on the lute, that was confined almost exclusively to Spain, where it was generally associated with the aristocracy; plucked instrument of the guitar family popular in parts of Spanish America, similar to the Spanish Renaissance vihuela, that includes a belly for added resonance and five single courses of strings
Vihuela
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