| Alma Latina (Spanish: "Latin Soul") has been playing and singing Latin American Music for the past twenty years as a musical act forming part of a varied
programme both at home and abroad. Alma Latina allows you to taste the flavour of Latin America with its many-voiced songs and performances on the harp,
the guitar and a variety of other instruments.
The instrument that most strikes the eye and the ear in Alma Latina is the Paraguayan harp.
From the sixteenth century onwards the Spanish harps spread over the South American continent, giving rise to such instruments as the Paraguayan harp. This
hand-made, wooden instrument has 36 diatonically-tuned nylon strings and has no pedals or similar such mechanism for changing key. The latter presupposes
a talent for improvisation on the part of the harpist in order to be a good performer. The Paraguayan harp has a clearer ring to it than that of the concert
harp and you play it using your finger nails. |
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