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Traditional music of Mexico features varieties of acoustic bass guitars. The bajo sexto, with six pairs of strings, resembles a twelvestring guitar tuned an octave lower. The heavy gauge strings generate a large string tension, yet the guitar is built relatively lightly. The bajo sexto began to be used in Texas in the 1920s with the rise of TexMex music, where it continues to be used to play the parts that would be played by the piano in traditional American popular