A Cavaquinho Mini Lecture with Daniel Duarte | StringsByMail.com

[@miahconnell23]

I am soooo grateful that Brazil & Brazilian friends showed me the cavaquinho. I can bring it to pub jams, and nobody else has one. It also breaks my habits free from depending on rock-n-roll guitar tropes. And it’s easier to transport & travel with. And the treble voice cuts through mid-range pub sounds. Adoro violaõ, & viola caipira & AINDA adoro rock guitar… but my li’l cavaquinho has become so so so dear to me 🙏❤️

[@matthewhofmann4534]

You are insanely talented my dude. Awesome stuff!

[@RockStarOscarStern634]

I use Thomastik Cavaquinho Strings because they have Silk Wound around both ends to protect them.

[@isidrolopezz]

Great video. You should make another comparing and explaining some features the cuatro, uklele, and the charango share.. as well as the vihuela, jarana and the guitare.

[@miahconnell23]

Yah ! The Puerto Rican cuatro and the Cuban Tres !

[@MusicismoreImportant]

Antonio de Torres jurado 🇪🇸

[@SerendipityArtStudio]

We had lean too much from you ! Please keep doing!!! We like it !!

[@adelminkara]

Obrigado!

[@HallaKobba]

That was great! Thank you :)

[@bigmanltd.7763]

Thanks mate,great video.

[@Victor-yh1ek]

You forgot also the Timple Canario ,cuatro venezolano ,Jarana Jarocha .

[@stanleynichols7300]

A little-known cousin of those instruments is the mejorana used in Panama

[@reinaldostrobel81]

Que marca de cavaquinho brasileiro você recomenda?

[@DellaStreet123]

How durable are cavaquinho steel strings compared to the nylon strings used for ukuleles? I saw a close-up of a cavaquinho once, and the steel strings looked really thin, like something that might easily snap if you tie it to the bridge.

[@miahconnell23]

They’re not any weaker than similar guage guitar strings: and if you want to or need to tie them off, there are tips and tricks (that I haven’t learned yet). I’ve noticed coloured stuff at the tie-off block on many players’ cavaquinhos. Not sure if it’s tape, electronics plastic insulation tubing, pipe-cleaners, or fabric. But we’ll figure it out. : )

[@danceandmusicchannel8913]

Cavaquinho

[@billjarv]

that is NOT the flag of Hawaii....It is the flag of the USA at 2:33 .....The flag of Hawaii has a union flag in the corner and only nine stripes.......especially important as the uke reached Hawaii before the USA did

[@MusicismoreImportant]

1879 Hawaii from Portugal

[@jeffhildreth9244]

Excellent video. I have been buying from Strings By Mail for years; acoustic guitar, classical, banjo and cavaquinho. SBM are the best for quality and service. I am making my second cavaquinho. This one has flamed maple sides and a flamed maple and rosewood back with a Port Orford Cedar top. For more examples of cavaquinho playing.. Danilo Brito also on you tube.

[@stanleynichols7300]

Luckily they don't really use armadillo shells to make charangos anymore. Apparently would was scarce in the Andes regions where that style of music started so they had to improvise.

[@rickjitchakumusic]

Why is the pronunciation of the Charango and the Cavaguinho correct but not for the ‘ukulele? I guess Hawai’i doesn’t count as a legitimate recognized language.

[@vudujacu666]

wtf

[@andreanunez7606]

what about the jarana?? mexican son jarocho. another small guitar.

[@a-maize-zing]

Or the Venezuelan Cuatro

[@m0rvidusm0rvidus18]

The 'Ukelele' doesn't have 'multicultural' origins, the natives of Hawaii literally had nothing to do with its development. It's a European guitar spread through the colonies by Europeans, named in a Polynesian language for exotica reasons and popularised this way by American commercialism.

[@MusicismoreImportant]

Three Portuguese instrument makers arrived in Hawaii in 1879, bringing with them native instruments including cavaquinho , on which the ukulele is based 😊