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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