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1. A guitar-like string instrument of 15th- and 16th-century Spain, usually with twelve paired strings.
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2. A guitar-like string instrument of 19th-century Mexico with five strings, typically played in mariachi bands.
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3. One is strumming a fat, round-backed guitar known as a vihuela, another, the deep-sounding guitarron, while two young singers gamely try to be heard: "De colores, de colores, se visten los campos en la primavera."
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4. Her brother, Nicholas, is in the performing group and plays the vihuela, which is smaller than the guitar but similar to it, she says.
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5. Humberto Flores strummed a vihuela, or five-string guitar.
