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Three instruments are utilized in playing Sun Huasteco music. However, the instruments are different though with some similarities. For instance, one of the instruments is different in terms of shape and how it is used while two of the instruments have similar shape and but they produce different sounds. The characteristic features of the instruments therefore require the crew playing Son music to consist of three persons which is the smallest crew in Son-playing crews. The crew, Conjunto Huasteco as known in Spanish, surfaced during the colonial era in Mexico in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries.

The first instrument resembles the common guitar and its back is large and flat and mostly formed from cedar is commonly known as the guitarra quinta huapangura, huapangura or quinta. The instrument is also characterized by its sound fullness feature.

Jarana Huasteca is the second instrument and is almost similar to the first instrument huapangura although they differ in few features. First, Jarana is smaller than huapangura. Second, the two instruments produce different sounds. The difference in sound is attributed to the make of the two different instruments. The Jarana huasteca has all strings single, while the huapangura has three strings that are doubled and others that are single.

Violin is the third and last instrument in this category of Son Huasteca music style. The violin is similar to the common European violin and the instrument is the standard violin.