Cheo Hurtado from Venezuela is an acclaimed musician, who received many awards and plays besides several other string instruments the four-string Cuatro. Cheo Hurtado has specialized in the cuatro as a solo instrument, seizing all the expressive possibilities, while creating the melody, harmony and rhythm, using the arpeggios and plucking. He also masters the mandolin, the guitar, the tres, the bass, as well as bandolins from different Venezuelan regions. Cheo Hurtado uses the so called traditional tuning in his work as soloist of the instrument. He has a very well developed charrasqueo technique in his right hand, as well as a full command of the diapason (finger-board), which has led him to request cuatro manufactures to add several frets additional to those normally used. A particular feature of his performance is to play melodies all together, and, in his last works, a wide variety of dynamic and timbric shades.