Quijongo Guanacasteco Eulalio Guadamuz is a sampled instrument within Sounds Of The Earth's VIDA library, which documents mystical sounds from Costa Rica. The quijongo is a Central American bowed instrument with an unusual construction: a single string mounted on a curved bow with a gourd resonator, played with a stick and a small bow, where the player's mouth or a second gourd modulates the resonance — producing a deep, breathy, wavering tone closer to a jew's harp or a bowed drum than to a violin. The "Guanacasteco" designation refers to Guanacaste, the Costa Rican province whose musical tradition the instrument belongs to, and Eulalio Guadamuz is the named traditional player whose performance the library documents — which is the point of a library of this kind: it preserves a specific player's technique, not a generic instrument. Its context and documentation are substantial. The VIDA library that contains it comprises 80 unique instruments, an installed size of 7 GB, 5,400+ loops and single hits, and 80 unique instruments, all mixed and ready to be used, running on OSX 10.13 or later and Windows 10 or later. Within that roster the quijongo appears in three player variants — Quijongo Guanacasteco Eulalio, Quijongo Guanacasteco Isidoro, and Quijongo Guanacasteco Oscar — each supplied as SN (single note), Lo (loop), and FX categories, which makes the differences between three traditional players' approaches directly comparable. The developer's mission is to capture the authentic sounds of indigenous tribes from all corners of the globe, with the project founded by Antonio Teoli, a composer who lived in the Amazon between 2014 and 2018, and Sounds of the Earth is a project of Andromeda Sound LLC. A free digital booklet with technical details and deep information about the instruments accompanies the library. It suits film, television, and game scoring, world music, and any production requiring an authentic Central American colour, and the library is listed at Plugin Boutique starting from $5.90 for individual content. #QuijongoGuanacasteco #Quijongo #EulalioGuadamuz #SoundsOfTheEarthVIDA #VIDA #SoundsOfTheEarth #CostaRica #Guanacaste #Kontakt #WorldInstruments #BowedStrings #TraditionalMusic #Ethnomusicology #FilmScore #GameAudio #Television #WorldMusic #SoundDesign #MusicProduction #FLStudio #AbletonLive #LogicPro #Cubase #Reaper