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.
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Vinony's link graph records 176 inbound references to cavaquinho, and connects out to Cape Verde, Iberian Peninsula and string instrument.
It is catalogued under topics including Brazilian musical instruments, Cape Verdean musical instruments and Guitar family instruments.
Vinony links it to 23 Wikipedia language editions.
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
via Wikipedia infobox
Wikidata facts
- Image
- Cavaquinho close up.jpg
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- Commons category
- Cavaquinhos
- Hornbostel-Sachs classification
- 321.322-5
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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.