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World English Dictionary
vihuela (Spanish biˈwela) ![[Click for IPA pronunciation guide]](http://static.sfdict.com/dictstatic/g/d/dictionary_questionbutton_default.gif) | |
| —n | |
| an obsolete plucked stringed instrument of Spain, related to the guitar | |
| [from Spanish] | |
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vihuela
stringed musical instrument that in Spanish Renaissance art music held the popularity accorded the lute elsewhere in Europe. Built like a large guitar, it had six, sometimes seven, double courses of strings tuned like the lute: G-c-f-a-d'-g'. (The guitar then had four double courses.)
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