Golpe
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Golpe has multiple meanings, as described below:
  • In music, golpe can mean
    • Golpe (guitar technique)
      Golpe (guitar technique)
      Golpe is mostly used in Flamenco guitar. It is a finger tap on the golpeador .-Technique:It is usually performed with the middle or annular finger, and can be performed either simultaneously with a down-stroke performed by another finger Golpe is mostly used in Flamenco guitar. It is a finger...

       is a Flamenco guitar
      Flamenco guitar
      A flamenco guitar is a guitar similar to a classical guitar. Flamenco guitar also refers to toque, the guitar-playing part of the art of Flamenco.-Brief history:...

       technique where one uses the fingers to tap on the soundboard of the guitar, from the Spanish "golpe", meaning to strike.
    • Golpe (cuatro pattern), the percussive strummed patterns of the cuatro
      Cuatro (instrument)
      The cuatro is any of several Latin American instruments of the guitar or lute family. The cuatro is smaller than a guitar. Cuatro means four in Spanish, although current instruments may have more than four strings....

      .

  • In politics, golpe can mean a Coup d'état
    Coup d'état
    A coup d'état state, literally: strike/blow of state)—also known as a coup, putsch, and overthrow—is the sudden, extrajudicial deposition of a government, usually by a small group of the existing state establishment—typically the military—to replace the deposed government with another body; either...

    , from the Spanish term "golpe de estado"
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