The Bahian-guitar was also the first headless solid-body electric plucked instrument, and nowadays it is usually manufactured to resemble a miniature electric guitar.

Ruskettle strummed a chord on her tiny yarting, a miniature guitar with seven catgut strings.

The eight-hour festival also includes Inkhay, playing songs of the Andes on wooden pipes, drums and the armadillo-shaped charango, a miniature guitar.

Mr. Martinez, who sometimes played the viguela (miniature guitar), introduced the songs in English and sang in a baritone that could be hearty or tender.

In addition to seeking medical attention, he has devised his own therapy and a miniature guitar for shadow practicing.

Hovers around in an inner tube and on occasion plays a miniature guitar.

The solidbodies are built very much as miniature electric guitars, whereas the acoustic-electrics are usually more like a standard acoustic charango.

There, all the way until Sunday afternoon, they can listen and dance to northeastern forro (bouncy songs for accordion, triangle and drum) or pagode (samba-flavored party music featuring percussion, miniature guitar or banjo).

On stage, two men sang this year's Carnival samba, while a third strummed a cavaquinho, a miniature guitar so amplified and distorted it resembled steel drums.

At first I thought it was a miniature guitar.