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Cavaquinho: the cavaquinho is a small string instrument of the European guitar family with four wires or gut strings. The Hawaiian Islands have an instrument similar to the cavaquinho called the ukulele, which is thought to be a development of the cavaquinho, brought to the island by Portuguese immigrants. The Hawaiian ukulele has four strings ...
Pages in category "Portuguese musical instruments" The following 25 pages are in this category, out of 25 total. This list may not reflect recent changes. A.
The instrument exists in a 15-string/6-course version, an 18-string/6-course version, [5] and an 18-string/7-course version, and resembles a small 12-string guitar with an extended headstock (to accommodate the additional strings). The sound box is typical "figure 8" guitar shaped, with typically a central circular sound hole; the fingerboard ...
List of Portuguese musical instruments From a page move : This is a redirect from a page that has been moved (renamed). This page was kept as a redirect to avoid breaking links, both internal and external, that may have been made to the old page name.
Galician gaita, a type of Portuguese and Galician bagpipe. Portuguese guitar, a plucked string instrument with twelve steel strings; Rabeca chuleira, a three-string fiddle; Cavaquinho, a small string instrument that originated the Ukulele; Machete, a small string instrument from Madeira; Viola braguesa, a ten-string instrument
The Brazilian cavaquinho is slightly larger than the Portuguese cavaquinho, resembling a small classical guitar. Its neck is raised above the level of the sound box, and the sound hole is usually round, like cavaquinhos from Lisbon and Madeira. A samba cavaco (right). The cavaquinho is a very important instrument in Brazilian samba and choro ...
The Portuguese guitar most diffused today has undergone considerable technical modification in the last century (dimensions, mechanical tuning system, etc.) although it has kept the same number of courses, the string tuning, and the finger technique characteristic of this type of instrument. The Portuguese Guitar is a descendant of the Medieval ...
The corridinho is a form of Portuguese folk dance, namely in the Algarve [1] [2] region. The origin of the dance itself is unclear and believed older, although it gained popularity in the 1800s. The name derives from correr, [3] to run which partly describes this type of dance. The dance was performed in a round (dança de roda) in the open air.