Question

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 “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.” Twelve études for this instrument were written by (*) Heitor (10[2])Villa-Lobos, [VEE-uh LO-bos] who dedicated them and his concerto for this instrument to Andrés Segovia. Players of this instrument sometimes tune its lowest string to E-flat or D (10[1])in“drop” tuning. In Hawai'i, a Portuguese form of this instrument (10[1])called the cavaquinho [ca-va-KEEN-yo] gave rise to the ukulele. For 10 points, name this originally Spanish instrument that (10[1])typically has six strings. ■END■

ANSWER: guitar [or acoustic guitar; or violão; prompt on lute; reject “viola”]
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Buzzes

PlayerTeamOpponentBuzz PositionValue
Jeremy CummingsWUSTLUSN A6915
Jack LewisMTSUClaremont7910
Gavin MarkoffVanderbilt AVanderbilt B7910
Jack LewisMTSUGeorgia Tech B10710
Matthew SumanenGeorgia Tech BBelmont11710
Tianyu XuGeorgia Tech AGeorgia Tech C13510

Summary

2024 Booster Shot (Columbia)02/23/2024Y6100%33%0%86.00
2024 Booster Shot (Waterloo)02/23/2024Y4100%25%0%84.25
2024 Booster Shot (Vanderbilt)03/02/2024Y5100%20%0%95.80
2024 Booster Shot (Vanderbilt)03/02/2024Y1100%0%0%107.00
2024 Booster Shot (Great Lakes)03/09/2024Y4100%0%25%115.00
2024 Booster Shot (WUSTL)03/09/2024Y3100%0%0%101.00