• Submitted by: manso
• Arts and Culture
• 05 / 21 / 2011

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2011.05.20 - 13:51:41 / radiorebelde.icrt.cu. Cuban Tres Declared National Heritage.SANTIAGO DE CUBA.- The tres, a Cuban guitar-looking instrument with three pairs of strings, was declared National Heritage on Thursday during the 15th International Festival Cubadisco 2011 underway in the eastern city of Santiago de Cuba.

Present in the ceremony, which was open to the public, were Cuban Culture Minister Abel Prieto Jimenez, the first secretary of the Cuban Communist Party in Santiago de Cuba, and artists participating in the festival of the Cuban record industry.

During the ceremony, a bronze monument to the instrument by Alberto Lescay was unveiled at the Aguilera Park, where the declaration was made.

Director of the National Museum of Music Jesus Gomez Cairo said declaring the tres National Heritage recognizes its genuine popular and native character, to the artistic, technical and patriotic values created through this musical instrument by the Cuban people.

Gomez Cairo said the Cuban tres was born in the 19th century in the eastern mountains of the island. The first historical documents making reference to the instrument locate it in the camps of the Cubans who were fighting for the independence of the country (referred to as mambises), where it enlivened the troops during the resting hours.

“It is an authentic Cuban instrument and an element of absolute national identity instrument, revealing with originality and versatility in y se revela con originalidad y versatilidad en esa dimension raigal”, precisó.

Regarding the monument to the tres, Gomez Cairo said it symbolizes an anonymous tres player that enhances the popular character of the instrument. (ACN)