The cavaquinho (pronounced [kɐvɐˈkiɲu] in Portuguese) is a small Portuguese string instrument in the European guitar family, with four wires or gut strings...

Nelson Cavaquinho (October 29, 1911 – February 18, 1986, birth name Nelson Antônio da Silva) was one of the most important singer/composers of samba. He...

starting from the age of seven, and later switched to mandolin and to the cavaquinho. He first performed in public in 1933 at the Carnival, playing flute....

bagpipes (gaita), drums, flutes, tambourines, accordions and ukuleles (cavaquinho). Within Portuguese folk music is the renowned genre of Fado, a melancholic...

Braguinha: the braguinha is a kind of cavaquinho (see below) that is usually found in Madeira. Cavaquinho: the cavaquinho is a small string instrument of the...

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as chorões. Originally choro was played by a trio of flute, guitar and cavaquinho (a small chordophone with four strings). Other instruments commonly played...

where Barbara spent many hours as a child. Her first instrument was a cavaquinho, given to her by her grandfather. She has two younger sisters and her...

the late 19th century as a possible predecessor of the ukulele. Rajão Cavaquinho Ukulele Ruymar, Lorene (1 September 1996). The Hawaiian Steel Guitar and...

bought his first cavaquinho, never letting go of the instrument until exchanging it for one which had belonged to "Master Nelson Cavaquinho", which accompanies...