duende / n. 1 an evil spirit. 2 inspiration. [Sp.]

'All that has dark sounds has duende.'

F.G. Lorca: 'Theory and Function of the Duende', in Selected Poems: Penguin Books; 1960,

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As the Spanish Instrument par excellence, the guitar comes pre-loaded with a burden of extra-musical cultural significance. When we play the guitar, we are always playing with a caravan of images which trail us like ghosts across a television screen. Jimi Hendrix; Robert Johnson; and a crowd of anonymous Spanish gypsies, swarming like penitents on the road to Santiago.