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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 ...
Galician pipe bands playing these instruments have become popular in recent years. The playing of close harmony (thirds and sixths) with two gaitas of the same key is a typical Galician gaita style. The bagpipe or gaita is known to have been popular in the Middle Ages, as early as the 9th century, but suffered a decline in popularity from the ...
Some Portuguese regiments from Minho, Trás-os-Montes and Guarda used the bagpipes to mark the marching cadence, although the standard marching pattern of the Portuguese infantry regiments was the same as the French. Northern Portugal is a very mountainous region, where the sound of bagpipes can be heard miles away due to the resonance effect ...
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
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.
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 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 ...
Portuguese luthiers (1 P) O. Portuguese pipe organ builders (1 P) Pages in category "Portuguese musical instrument makers"