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Combining ritual poetry with traditional music and dance, the Gnawa master is centre-stage, playing the main guitar-like instrument, the ghembri.

From BBC • Sep. 1, 2023

Though elderly, he was active, farming and giving cuatro lessons — the Puerto Rican guitar-like instrument — on Saturday mornings.

From Los Angeles Times • Sep. 20, 2018

The bass notes have an almost guitar-like thrum, percussive and liquid at once.

From New York Times • Oct. 20, 2017

Inside, a Venezuelan folk band strummed a bass guitar and two guitar-like instruments - a cuatro and a mandola - amid piles of blankets and bags of clothes.

From Washington Times • Sep. 9, 2017

In one of their dances they used a sort of small kettle-drum, with a guitar-like handle to it.

From The Continental Monthly, Vol. 1, No. 1, January 1862 Devoted to Literature and National Policy by Various