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  2. List of Portuguese musical instruments - Wikipedia

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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 ...

  3. List of Portuguese inventions and discoveries - Wikipedia

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    Gaita transmontana, a type of Portuguese bagpipe; 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

  4. Cavaquinho - Wikipedia

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    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 ...

  5. Basilica organs of the Palace of Mafra - Wikipedia

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    Pipe organ in Mafra.. The six organs in the Basilica of the Palace of Mafra - designed and built all at the same time, and designed to play together as well - were built by the two most important Portuguese organ builders of the time – António Xavier Machado e Cerveira and Joaquim António Peres Fontanes – and were completed between 1806 and 1807.

  6. Category:Portuguese musical instrument makers - Wikipedia

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    Tools. Tools. move to sidebar hide. Actions ... Portuguese pipe organ builders (1 P) Pages in category "Portuguese musical instrument makers"

  7. Stringed Instruments Museum - Wikipedia

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    The Stringed Instruments Museum in Portuguese: Museu dos Cordofones is located in Tebosa, in the surroundings of the city of Braga, Portugal dedicated to traditional Portuguese string instruments. The museum opened in 1995. [1] The collection features Portuguese instruments from the Middle Ages through to modern times, some have fallen into disuse.

  8. Gittern - Wikipedia

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    Name in Portuguese: The process whereby the round-backed guitarra became a flat-backed instrument in Spain (and the instrument itself) appears to have left little impact on Portuguese history. The usage of 'guitarra' in the 18th century (to present) Portugal refers to a different instrument - the guitarra portuguesa , related to later ...

  9. Portuguese guitar - Wikipedia

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    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 ...