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  • Collection: Sharing Culture - Roots Music

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These are the guitars and other lute family instruments that make up Pepe's strings collection.

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A close up of a small selection from Pepe Santana's stringed instrument collection.

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A portion of Pepe Santana's collection of stringed instruments from around the world hand in a wall display.

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The Puerto Rican cuatro is unofficially known as the national instrument of Puerto Rico. It is used to play the traditional jíbaro music of the mountains of Puerto Rico.

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Pepe takes the time to show us the instruments in his collection. He shared with us the origins of many of his instruments, and even told us stories of how he acquired some of them.

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Here Pepe is tuning his instruments for his performance at Whispering Knoll Assisted Living facility in Edison, New Jersey.
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