Incipient reflections on the golfín instrument inside the cathedral chapel of the Iglesia Matriz in Cuenca (Ecuador) in the 19th century

Abstract

The work makes a first approach to the study of the instrument called golfín, inside the cathedral chapel of the Matriz Church of Cuenca in the xix century. The mystery that still encloses the clarification of the instrument itself, proposes an analytical perspective that unveils a productive result of the subject. On the basis of unpublished sources of the cathedral archives, a reconstruction of data and exhaustive observations has been established to initiate the reseach, trying to answer the questions that the subject does not cease to formulate. The objective of what has been presented up to this point is to expose this case study to the scientific community with the purpose of finding in other researchers some information that will allow to consolidate the characteristics of the golfín instrument.