Notes & Tuning
The vihuela has five nylon strings in reentrant tuning. Similar to the first five strings of a guitar, but with the third, fourth and fifth an octave above what one might expect.
Tuning: ADGBE – The A,D, and G are tuned one octave above a guitar.
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