Plectro Trio – Colombian Andean Music The Plectro Trio was founded in 2001. It plays typical Colombian Andean Music with bandola, tiple and guitar. There are many videos with great music by the Plectro Trio. The colombian bandola is similar to the bandurria of Spain. it has 6 courses with each two or three strings, […]
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Today I want to present an orchestra from Kolombia – the Estudiantina de la Universidad Tecnológica de Pereira. In the spanish speaking countries most universities have tunas or estudiantinas – music ensembles that play plucked instruments like bandola, bandurria, mandolin and guitars and sing. The videos by the Estudiantina de la Universidad Tecnológica de Pereira
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Today I have searched for new videos from Venezuela with bandola llanera or cuatro – and during this search I have found some videos of an ensemble named Percujazz. Percujazz is composed of five young musicians, with the typical venezuelan instruments bandola llanera, cuatro and maracas aswell as violin and electric bass. The ensemble has
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There are several instruments in Venezuela and Columbia named bandola, the bandola llanera is the most popular of those. The bandola llanera has 4 strings – usually made from nylon like the strings of a classical guitar. It looks like a pearshaped guitar, at the first sight it looks quite strange and unusual. The instrument
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