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plural charangos
A small guitar-like stringed instrument with five courses of eighteen to fifteen strings, originating in traditional Andean folk music. quotations examples
One song the group performed on Thursday, “La Partida,” featured lovely bell harmonics from the guitars, a shifting pattern of cross‐rhythms on the guitar‐like charango, and a quena lead.
1978 April 14, “Music: Inti‐Illimani, From the Andes”, in The New York Times