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  2. Portuguese guitar - Wikipedia

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    The Portuguese guitar or Portuguese guitarra (Portuguese: guitarra portuguesa, pronounced [ɡiˈtaʁɐ puɾtuˈɣezɐ]) is a plucked string instrument with twelve steel strings, strung in six courses of two strings. It is one of the few musical instruments that still uses watch-key or Preston tuners.

  3. 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 ...

  4. Cavaquinho - Wikipedia

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    Portuguese and Brazilian cavaquinhos. 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).

  5. Carlos Paredes - Wikipedia

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    Carlos Paredes ComSE (Portuguese pronunciation: [ˈkaɾluʃ pɐˈɾeðɨʃ]; 16 February 1925 – 23 July 2004) was a virtuoso Portuguese guitar player and composer.He is regarded as one of the greatest players of Portuguese guitar of all-time.

  6. List of Portuguese inventions and discoveries - Wikipedia

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    Ukulele, string instrumental developed by Portuguese immigrants in Hawaii; 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

  7. Marta Pereira da Costa, the queen of the Portuguese guitar ...

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    The first woman to professionally play the Portuguese guitar in fado, Marta Pereira da Costa will bring her music to The Narrows in Fall River in April

  8. Category:Portuguese guitarists - Wikipedia

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  9. Cittern - Wikipedia

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    The cittern family survives as the Corsican cetara and the Portuguese guitar. The guitarra portuguesa is typically used to play the popular traditional music known as fado. In the early 1970s, using the guitarra and a 1930s archtop Martin guitar as models, English luthier Stefan Sobell created a "cittern", a hybrid instrument primarily used for ...