A piece for this instrument subtitled “homage to social life” is the last in a set of five preludes one composer dedicated to his wife Mindinha [min-DEEN-ya]. A piece for this instrument that fuses a popular genre with the mazurka and the schottische is titled (15[1])“Popular Suite” from its composer's home country. A player of this instrument featured it in his first piece in a genre whose name means (15[1])“crying.” (15[1])Twelve (15[1]-5[1])études for this instrument were written by (*) Heitor (10[5])Villa-Lobos, [VEE-uh LO-bos] who (10[1])dedicated (10[1])them and his concerto for this instrument to Andrés (10[1])Segovia. (10[1])Players of this (10[1])instrument sometimes tune its lowest string to E-flat or D (10[1])in“drop” tuning. (10[1])In Hawai'i, a Portuguese form of this instrument (10[2])called the cavaquinho (10[1])[ca-va-KEEN-yo] gave rise to the ukulele. (10[1])For 10 points, name (10[1])this originally Spanish instrument that (10[1])typically has six strings. ■END■ (10[1])