cavaquinho
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The cavaquinho (pronounced in Portuguese) is a small Portuguese string instrument in the European guitar family, with four wires or gut strings.
Key facts
- Instrument.name
- Cavaquinho
- Instrument.names
- Machete, braguinha, manchete, cavaco
- Instrument.image
- Vea.cavaquinho.png
- Instrument.image_capt
- Portuguese cavaquinhos
- Instrument.background
- string
- Instrument.classification
- String instrument
- Instrument.hornbostel_sachs_desc
- Composite chordophone
- Instrument.developed
- Portugal
- Instrument.related
- Ukulele, Viola braguesa, Cuatro
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Encyclopedic overview
14 sectionsContents
- Tuning
- Forms
- Machete and braguinha
- Minhoto
- International use
- Brazil{{anchor|samba_cavaco}}
- Cape Verde
- Hawaii
- Northern Latin America and the Caribbean
- Origins
- See also
- Further reading
- References
- External links
The cavaquinho (pronounced in Portuguese) is a small Portuguese string instrument in the European guitar family, with four wires or gut strings.
A cavaquinho player is called a cavaquista.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “cavaquinho” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.