Oscar Alemán playing a Cavaquinho (four stringed Brazilian ukulele type instrument)

Short clip of Oscar Alemán playing a cavaquinho (four stringed Brazilian ukulele type instrument)

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• Alemán
• ukulele
• cavaquinho

[anonymous10001000]

a cavaquinho is similar to a ukelele but u can't say it's a type of ukelele......

[JBoyShyne]

@anonymous10001000 Sure I can and I did. They both have 4 strings and the scale of a cavaquinho is the same as a soprano ukululele. While a cavaquinho usually has steel strings, some folks do use nylon or gut strings on them (just like ukes). I actually posted this clip for my ukulele pals. However, in that I don't want to upset the cavaquinho community, I changed the title.

[anonymous10001000]

@JBoyShyne yes but the cavaquinho is not the same instrument. The cavaquinho is actually the older ancestor of the ukulele. The strings are also ALOT more tense then the ukulele. A uke could never hold that pressure, it'd sooner snap in half.......

[tennisboi107]

@JBoyShyne The cavaquinho came first... the pacific islanders fashioned the ukulele (mainly out of koa wood) with a light body after the Portuguese brought the cavaquinho to the islands. :) they just didn't put as much tension on the strings because of the alternative sting types they used. They are so similar that if you reinforce an alto uke's neck you can tense the strings to the point where it is at the same pitch of the Cavaquinho.

[sergiobollana]

@JBoyShyne, actually it is the ukulele the one that is a type of cavaquinho, not backwards. The ukulele derived from the cavaquinhos the portuguese brought to Hawaii.

[anonymous10001000]

@JBoyShyne also, a qavaquinho is much higher pitched then a uke, a cavaquinho is its own instrument not a "type" of ukelele

[anonymous10001000]

@JBoyShyne while they may be similar, they are not the same instrument, the ukelele would never be strong enough to support the stress required of the strings for the cavaquinho

[treygroove65]

@flhashmmer tenes toda la razon del mundo .

[flhashmmer]

dejenlo, los yanquis usan los nombres que ellos les dan a las cosas, y despues te discuten que son los nombres originales... ojala se pudren en su propia mierda

[thesantiso]

argentina 4ever suckers!