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The berimbau consists of a wooden bow (verga – traditionally made from biribá wood, which grows in Brazil), about 4 to 5 feet (1.2 to 1.5 metres) long, with a steel string (arame – often pulled from the inside of an automobile tire) tightly strung and secured from one end of the verga to the other.
The Caipira viola or Caipira guitar [1] (in Portuguese: Viola caipira), is a Brazilian ten-string guitar with five courses of strings arranged in pairs. [2] It is a variation of the Portuguese viola that developed in the state of São Paulo during the colonial period, [3] serving as a basis for Paulista music, especially for subgenres of Caipira folklore, such as moda de viola, caipira pagode ...
The viola de Queluz is a stringed instrument from Queluz, Brazil.It has 12 strings in 5 courses. The lower 2 are tripled, and the rest are doubled. They were produced mainly between the late 19th and early 20th century, and inspired by the viola toeira from Portugal.
The ku is a Maori instrument from New Zealand, made of matai wood and a fibre string, and is tapped with a rod. [18] The ukeke is a three-stringed musical bow from Hawaii, played using the mouth as a resonating chamber. The Yelatáj chos woley is a musical bow (played with another bow), from the Wichí culture of the Argentinian Gran Chaco.
The cuatro is a family of larger 4-stringed instruments derived from the cavaquinho that are popular in Latin-American countries in and around the Caribbean. Versions of the iconic Venezuelan cuatro are very similar to the Brazilian cavaquinho, with a neck laid level with the sound box, like a Portuguese cavaquinho.
Giannini is a Brazilian musical instruments manufacturing company, [1] based in Salto, São Paulo. Products currently manufactured by Giannini include electric, steel-string acoustic, nylon-string acoustic and bass guitars. Other string instruments include craviolas, cavaquinhos, viola caipiras and mandolins.
Brazilian percussion (22 P) Pages in category "Brazilian musical instruments" The following 13 pages are in this category, out of 13 total.
The viola de buriti is a Brazilian stringed instrument made from the buriti palm tree. [1] [2] It is very lightweight, has four nylon strings [3] and a tiny sound board [4] and is fretless. It is found in the region of Jalapão in Tocantins and in northwest Minas Gerais. [5] [6] [7]