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bajo sexto

bajo sexto noun: a stringed instrument of Mexican origin, with twelve thick strings in six double-courses, with a short neck and a deep soundboard; a type of acoustic bass guitar.

bajo sexto: a stringed instrument of Mexican origin, with twelve thick strings in six double-courses, with a...
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Noun

bajo sexto (plural bajo sextos)

  1. A stringed instrument of Mexican origin, with twelve thick strings in six double-courses, with a short neck and a deep soundboard; a type of acoustic bass guitar.
    • He sings about being spurned, drunk, rebounding and flaunting his blingy Patek Phillipe watch as Bizarrap quantizes regional Mexican acoustic sounds — the syncopated chords and trombone of a brass band, the slapping bass lines of a bajo sexto, solos on high-strung Mexican guitars — into a...2023 June 2, Jon Pareles, Giovanni Russonello, Lindsay Zoladz, “A Lost (and Found) John Coltrane Recording, and 9 More New Songs”, in The New York Times

Forms of bajo sexto

pluralbajo sextos

Questions about bajo sexto

What does bajo sexto mean?
Bajo sexto means a stringed instrument of Mexican origin, with twelve thick strings in six double-courses, with a short neck and a deep soundboard; a type of acoustic bass guitar.
What part of speech is bajo sexto?
Bajo sexto is a noun.
What is the plural of bajo sexto?
The plural of bajo sexto is bajo sextos.

Words near bajo sexto in the dictionary

  1. Bajina Bašta
  2. bajis
  3. Bajo de Masinloc
  4. bajo quinto
  5. bajo quintos
  6. bajo sexto
  7. bajo sextos
  8. bajocchi
  9. bajocco
  10. bajoccos
  11. Bajocian

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