Fado Maior: Portuguese Guitar Lesson 3

sooooooooooo portuguese, haha. Im full blooded, miss Portugal wanna go back soon. I also wanna snag me a viola, ive been playin acoustic a few months, i cant put the guitar down.

ITS PORTUGUESE LIKE ME

good

Wonderful sound. I definetely became a fan of this amazing instrument and I am intended to learn to play it.
Parabéns, ó pá !

i need some informations about the portuguese guitarra, i'm from portugal , and love youre tecnique..
please contact me..
thanks mr.fernando

Absolutely beautiful! This is my first exposure to this music and I love it!

This is killer tight biscuits.

Fantástico!
Parabéns por esse som e interpretação.
5 stars!

The Portuguese Guitarra is part of the cittern family which are fretted instruments with teardrop shaped bodies, flat backs (as opposed to the lute bowl shape) and courses of double strings. Pedro Caldeira Cabral in his 400 page book, A Guitarra Portuguesa, argues that the modern guitarra evolved in Portugal from a Renaissance "citara" (Cittern or cithern in English). In the 18th Century the importation of the English Guittar influenced the design of the Portuguese guitarra.

In the 20th century the Portuguese Guitarra evolved into a larger instrument than the 19th century version. The Gracio Family and later the Cardoso Family made modern world class Lisbon style guitarras. The Gracio Family in association with Artur Paredes are credited with the development of the modern Coimbra style Guitarra