For professor davidson

In Sun Huasteco music style there are three different types of instruments used to play. Two of them have a similar shape, but with different sound and the other looks different and used differently; that means the crew of the son-playing consist of three persons, which considered one of the smallest crew in son-playing crews. The Conjunto Huasteco (the Spanish crew’s name) appeared in Mexico in colonial period; of the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries.

The first instrument called the guitarra quinta huapangura (also known as huapangura or quinta) it looks like the known guitar, large and flat-backed, its made out of cedar. It has five to eight strings. One can know the huapangura from its large and deep body. Also its known for its fullness sound.

The second instrument in this style called the jarana huasteca. The jarana huasteca looks alike the huapangura, but smaller. You can hear the difference in the voice between the two guitars (Huapangura and the jarana huasteca); and the reaspn for that the huapangura has 3 strings that are doubled and the rest single, while the jarana huasteca has its strings all singles.

The last instrument in the Son Huasteca style is the violin. The violin has no difference from any other European violin. It is the standard tune violin.