“Cascabel“ Los Angeles Musicos Callejeros - Street Musicians - Guitarron

Traditional music of Mexico features varieties of acoustic bass guitars. The bajo sexto, with six pairs of strings, resembles a twelve-string guitar tuned an octave lower. The heavy gauge strings generate a large string tension, yet the guitar is built relatively lightly. The bajo sexto began to be used in Texas in the 1920s with the rise of “Tex-Mex“ music, where it continues to be used to play the parts that would be played by the piano in traditional American popular