Viola braguesa is a
stringed instrument
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Musicians play some string instruments by plucking the st ...
from
Braga
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, north-western
Portugal
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. It has 10 strings in 5 courses. The strings are made of steel. It is tuned C
4/C
3–G
4/G
3–A
4/A
3–D
4/D
4–G
4/G
4. The scale length is about .
Requinta
Many , such as the Viola braguesa, have smaller requinto versions also, called 'requinta'. The viola braguesa requinta is tuned: A
4/A
3–C
5/C
4–F
5/F
4–C
5/C
5–E
5/E
5. This tuning is a fifth above the standard Viola braguesa.
See also
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Viola caipira
The ''viola caipira'', often simply ''viola'', ( Portuguese for ''country guitar'') is a Brazilian ten-string guitar with five courses of strings arranged in pairs. It was introduced in the state of São Paulo, where it is widely played as the ...
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Cavaquinho
The cavaquinho (pronounced in Portuguese) is a small Portuguese string instrument in the European guitar family, with four wires or gut strings.
More broadly, ''cavaquinho'' is the name of a four-stringed subdivision of the lute family of instr ...
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Bandolim
A mandolin ( it, mandolino ; literally "small mandola") is a stringed musical instrument in the lute family and is generally plucked with a pick. It most commonly has four courses of doubled strings tuned in unison, thus giving a total of ...
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Guitarra portuguesa
The Portuguese guitar or Portuguese guitarra ( pt, guitarra portuguesa, ) is a plucked string instrument with twelve steel strings, strung in six course (music), courses of two strings. It is one of the few musical instruments that still uses wat ...
References
External links
The Stringed Instrument DatabaseATLAS of Plucked Instruments
String instruments
Portuguese musical instruments
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