Vihuela - Surviving Instruments

Surviving Instruments

There are only four definite surviving vihuela:

  • the well-known example in the Musée Jacquemart-Andrée, the 'Guadalupe' vihuela;
  • the recently re-discovered 'Chambure' instrument in the Cité de la Musique (both of the above in Paris)
  • the Portuguese 'Dias' vihuela in the Royal College of Music (London)
  • a relic of Saint Mariana de Jesús (1618–1645), kept in the Iglesia de la Compañia de Jesús de Quito.

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