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	GUITAR : Encyclopedia Entry
		Archtop guitars were immediately adopted upon their release by both jazz and country musicians and have remained particularly popular in jazz music, usually using thicker strings (higher gauged round wound and flat wound) than acoustic guitars.
		A guitar using this tuning can tune to itself by the fact, with a single exception, the 5th fret on one string is the same note as the next open string; that is, a 5th-fret note on the sixth string is the same note as the open fifth string.
		A "guitar pick" or "plectrum" is a small piece of hard material which is generally held between the thumb and first finger of the picking hand and is used to "pick" the strings.
	bibleocean.com /OmniDefinition/Guitar (7376 words)

	About the Portuguese guitar
		There’s two different tunes for the Portuguese Guitar _Lisbon and Coimbra_ curiously it’s the name of two important Cities of our country; the 1st is the Capital of Portugal and the other is the most important University City.
		Curiosly, Guitars began their life in England, Mr Simpson was the best constructor, the sound of his guitars and also his method of construction was known all over the country.
		It takes between 2 and 5 years for the "birth" of a guitar, because it is all hand made, it’s also important to mention that even today the art of constructing Guitars is very rare since there’s just 3 constructers in the intire country.
	www.melomusic.nl /pguitar.htm (1735 words)

	[No title] (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-29)
		Fado is a Portuguese song form which dwells on the life of the poor and on the sea and especially the feeling called saudade: sadness, loneliness, longing, and even happiness.
		Guitars are an integral part of the band that accompany Salgueiro.
		The impact is immediate as guitars and acoustic bass set up a gently rolling rhythm for “Lisboa, Rinha Do Mar” (Lisbon, Queen of the Sea) and Salgueiro transfixes with her voice.
	www.allaboutjazz.com /php/review_print.php?id=18888 (328 words)

	Fado (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-29)
		The traditional accompaniment for the fadista is a Portuguese guitar, or guitarra, a 12-string instrument, and bass guitar, or viola.
		The guitar, as it exists today, is indigenous to Portugal, and has a unique sound that is the pride of Portugal.
		She is very popular among the Portuguese living in the New England area and has performed extensively both in the U.S. and Canada.
	www.provincetownportuguesefestival.com /fado.htm (699 words)

	Portugal (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-29)
		Because Philip II of Spain was the son of a Portuguese princess, the Spanish ruler became Philip I of Portugal in 1581.
		The four Main organs of Portuguese politics are the President of the Republic, the Parliament, the Council of Ministers (Government), and the Judiciary.
		Portuguese public opinion and media tend to be Europhile, in the EuroBarometer's 2004 Spring survey, 60% of the Portuguese trusted the European Union.
	portugal.iqnaut.net (6593 words)

	Luis Baptis - Official Website: Store
		The word viola in Portuguese is used to refer to instruments which English and Spanish speakers would think of as "guitars", that is, fretted instruments with a flat back, a long neck, and a waisted body..
		But a portuguese viola is in fact an instrument with many resemblances to common guitars although much more antique and each of them with a very unique shape.
		Of unique shape and sound the portuguese guitar (on the left) is probably the best well known and appreciated portuguese traditional instrument worlwide.
	www.musiclbm.com /en/guitars.html (377 words)

	Music of Portugal - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Portugal is internationally known in the music scene for its traditions of fado, but the country has seen a recent expansion in musical styles, with modern acts from rock to hip hop becoming popular, as the new generations reject much of the past traditions.
		Portuguese literature, especially the quatrain couplets and modinha ballads, were another integral part of early fado, but fado had appeared by 1836, when Maria Severa sang a fado so beautifully that she seduced and ruined the Conde de Vimisio.
		Fado is often sang with a Portuguese guitar.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Music_of_Portugal (1263 words)

	VeryTypical
		The origin of the Portuguese guitar is intimately linked to the "Fado" and it is result of the coalition of two instruments: Cistro, introduced in Portugal in the 16th century of popular origin, and the English Guitar, a quite more erudite character and existent in Portugal since the 18th century.
		Only by the beginnings of the 20th century happened the coalition between the two models whose result was the birth of the Portuguese guitar as singular instrument in the string instruments panorama.
		The Portuguese guitar presented is executed in walnut and maple wood and with other wood types inlay work (sacred wood).
	www.verytypical.com /product.asp?Cod_Produto=143 (254 words)

	The Pokiki: Portuguese Traditions
		Jacintho Pereira, a Portuguese citizen of Hawai`i and owner of a dry goods store in Honolulu, suggested in 1876 that Hawai`i's government look for sugar labor to Madeira where farmers were succumbing to a severe economic depression fostered by a blight that decimated vineyards and the wine industry.
		Portuguese could still be heard spoken at Honoka`a on the Big Island, at Makawao and Kula in up-country Maui, and at Lihu`e and Kalaheo on Kaua`i in areas where Portuguese farmed and ranched.
		Isabel lives in Portuguese tradition as the prototype of the pious and charitable woman, and legends have been woven around her since her death.
	www.islander-magazine.com /port.html (2202 words)

	How to fake a normal guitar into a Portuguese guitar
		A Portuguese guitar is smaller than a normal guitar, also in terms of effective string length.
		If however you have a 12-string guitar you can (mis)use for this purpose, that gives you the opportunity to comes even closer to the tuning of the Portuguese guitar, because it too has twelve string.
		The term is most appropriate when you think of a piano keyboard ("tastiera"), but is also used, as a translate, for stringed instruments when their fingerboard is armed with transversal bars (as in the guitar, as opposed to the violin): the space where the finger operates, between any two bars, is a "tasto".
	rudhar.com /musica/tuneguit/portguit.htm (919 words)

	BBC NEWS \| Entertainment \| Portuguese guitarist Paredes dies
		Portuguese guitarist Carlos Paredes, known as "the man with a thousand fingers", has died at the age of 79.
		The Portuguese guitar is played using only the right index finger and thumb.
		Paredes was born in the city of Coimbra and began to play guitar at the age of four.
	news.bbc.co.uk /2/hi/entertainment/3920619.stm (320 words)

	P - Project (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-29)
		The English guitar changed the tuning for a perfect chord scheme (CEG) while the Portuguese guitar remained faithful to the old cithern tuning.
		By 1796, Silva Leite wrote a method for the guitar called ”Estudo da Guitarra” for the usage of his students, being this the first time that the guitar is mentioned in Portugal [2], although the tuning 38 used suggests that the method is written for the English guitar.
		Around 1870 the guitar is introduced in the academic student life of Coimbra, in which is still today, and gaining strength, an important component.
	cmr.soc.plymouth.ac.uk /members/jmartins/pproject/guitar.htm (471 words)

	About the Portuguese guitar and fado (English language)
		As the Guitar was the favorite instrument as for the Ladies as also for the tramps, in the Luis XV courtship; its strident strings also heard at the "golden" Reception Halls of Marquis the Marialva till the dark alleys of Bairro Alto and Alfama of the last period of the 18th Century.
		On 1786, a different method of playing Guitar was introduced by Master António Silva Leite (Chapel Master) born in Oporto.
		They’re diverse since the "volute" _ at Lisbon Guitar it ends in a curl, at coimbra’s ends in the shape of a tear.
	www.melomusic.nl /i_guite.htm (1068 words)

	Acoustic Guitar Central: Artist Gear Picks
		The Steve Howe 00-18 and the Portuguese guitar are equipped with Fishman pickups, and Howe has been very impressed with the Scharpach’s Applied Acoustic system, which uses a finely tuned combination of piezo pickup, internal mic, and external class-A preamp.
		Her stage guitar is a Taylor 514-CE outfitted with a Fishman Prefix Blend pickup/mic combo.
		The guitar is equipped with a feedback-reducing soundhole cover that makes the signal from the internal mic sound hollow, so Wood sets the Fishman’s blend control to 100 percent pickup.
	www.acguitar.com /issues/ag110/gear110.html (1040 words)

	portuguese guitar (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-29)
		The Portuguese guitar belongs to the family of string instruments known as
		Although normally associated with fado, the song of Lisbon, there are composers and players that see the Portuguese guitar as a true solo instrument.
		There are two main types of Portuguese guitars: one from Lisbon, the other from Coimbra.
	www.nunocristo.com /guitar.html (116 words)

	Pedro Caldeira Cabral - Portuguese Guitar / cdRoots
		An autodidact in Portuguese guitar, Pedro Caldeira was inspired to develop his own style based on the guitar soloist tradition, combined with original techniques and elements from his studies of old instruments of Mediterranean Europe's erudite and popular traditions.
		He was in charge of the preproduction and artistic management at the Festival of Portuguese Guitar at EXPO '98.
		He was the commissary for the monographic exhibitions "Portuguese Guitar Memories" displayed at Prague's St. Agnes of Bohemia Convent, in the Czech Republic, in September 2000 and for à Descoberta da Guitarra Portuguesa (Discovering the Portuguese Guitar) at the Abade de Pedrosa Museum, in Santo Tirso, June 2002.
	www.cdroots.com /tradisom-cabral.html (579 words)

	Portuguese guitar - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The Portuguese guitar is a 12 string instrument originating in the middle ages, based on the citer and the arabic lute.
		Nevertheless, the Portuguese guitar is not a cittern and has many eastern influences related to the Arabic lute.
		At the same time, in Coimbra, António Brójo and António Portugal developed both the Portuguese guitar and the Fado de Coimbra, overcoming previous limitations on composition and improvisation.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Portuguese_guitar (291 words)

	Ukulele Quotes
		The ukulele is a member of the guitar family of musical instruments, and underwent many years of evolutionary development as a product of Portuguese folk culture.
		The modern ukulele is a close relative of the cavaquinho of mainland Portugal, and the braguinha of the Portuguese islands of Madeira.
		That all three instruments were made and played in Portugal is proved by the fact that the largest, the guitar, was there called the viola.
	www.nalu-music.com /nalu/quotes.html (1537 words)

	Basic Guitar Chords
		His eclectic musical background is perfectly showcased in all of the eleven original tracks, with a special cover track, a tribute to the master of portuguese guitar, Carlos Paredes, the impressive and overwhelming “Movimento Perpétuo”.
		In the present time, besides the scheduled shows, Gonçalo continues to give guitar lessons in his new studio, and composing for Shawn Lane’s tribute album, which is going to be released worldwide during this year’s first semester.
		It said to unplug the instrument cable from the guitar amp, crank the amp up to very high levels, and put the SM 57 (or whatever mic you are using) in front of the speaker.
	www.guitarojam.com /Members/NL02Mar06.htm (8330 words)

	Portuguese Foundation Inc. of Connecticut - President's Page (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-29)
		The fado is sung by male students and accompanied by a Portuguese guitar called the guitar of Coimbra, a twelve stringed instrument with a deeper sound than its Lisbon counterpart.
		Presently, the University has 23,000 students, and is one of the leading research centers in Europe with its extensive library, hospital school, astronomical observatory and botanical gardens.
		In 1990, seven hundred years after the founding of the University of Coimbra, and across the Atlantic Ocean, the Portuguese Foundation was founded, based on the principles of promoting the Portuguese Culture in the State of Connecticut and assisting students of Portuguese ancestry in their quest to achieve a higher education.
	www.pfict.org /pres.html (642 words)

	Mariza, Fado Em Mim (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-29)
		Mariza is joined on this CD by several musicians including Custodio Castelo (Portuguese guitar), Jorge Fernando and Antonio Neto (classical guitar, viola), Marino Freitas (acoustic bass), Ricardo Cruz (acoustic and double bass), Tiago Machado (piano), Dalu and Joaquim Teles (percussion) and Davide Zaccaria (cello).
		Although she enjoys researching her roots -- which include Portuguese, Spanish, German, African and Indian blood -- she completely identifies with the Portuguese culture because that is where she grew up.
		Mariza claims that as part of the Portuguese culture, fado can only be sung by Portuguese in their own language.
	www.rambles.net /mariza_fado01.html (416 words)

	PORTUGUESE GUITAR HISTORY (Guitar News Weekly #139, April 23, 2001 - (c) GuitarSite.com)
		But this theory is commonly refuted by two arguments: on one hand, the Moorish guitar is known to be the origin a completely different line of musical instruments - the mandolins; and on the other hand, the association between the Portuguese guitar and the fado is quite a recent one.
		This may explain the different construction, structure and tuning of the Coimbra Guitar - with its roots in Oporto - and the Lisbon Guitar.
		Such fact should also be connected with the court's displacement to Coimbra, and it's very likely that both ancestors of the Portuguese guitar were kept in use, even after the troubadour age.
	www.guitarsite.com /newsletters/010423/17.shtml (468 words)

	Acoustic Guitar Central: Reviews
		Billy Joe’s songs have never been stronger, and Eddy’s guitar playing, a Texas blend of blues and country, is lean and economical, cutting straight to the heart of his father’s music.
		Her acoustic guitar playing is rhythmic and compelling, and George Marinelli provides superb backup on acoustic and electric guitars.
		The 18th-century wire-strung guittar, also known as the cetra, cittra, chitarra, and (since the 19th century) English guitar, is a pear-shaped, short-scale, fretted instrument similar to the modern Portuguese guitar.
	www.acousticguitar.com /issues/ag107/reviews107.html (1121 words)

	Amazon.com: Guitarra Portuguesa: Music: Carlos Paredes (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-29)
		I have loved great guitar playing all my life and I have to say that Carlos Paredes is one of the best in the world, and definitely of Portugal.
		This CD exemplifies that great tradition of excellent guitar playing that is present throughout Portugal and now has spread to many other parts of the world.
		Paredes was (alas, he's no longer with us) a virtuoso of the Portuguese guitar, and this album shows his skill as a composer and performer beautifully.
	www.amazon.com /Guitarra-Portuguesa-Carlos-Paredes/dp/B000005IZH (851 words)

	CD Baby: NUNO CRISTO: minha terra banzambira
		Original compositions for the Portuguese guitar, the mbira dza vadzimu, and pieces drawn from the Portuguese and Shona musical traditions.
		As far as being influenced by specific artists and movements, I celebrate the innovative style of the late Portuguese singer-songwriter José Afonso and the revival of traditional Portuguese music that followed the 1974 Revolution of the Carnations.
		The first European record of this type of instrument was written by a Portuguese missionary in the 16th century in Manica, Mozambique.
	www.cdbaby.com /cd/cristo (470 words)

	World Music Central - Fado music
		The fado is normally sung by men or women and accompanied by one Portuguese guitar and one classic guitar, which in Portugal is called viola.
		This song reached its golden era in the first half of the 20th century, when the Portuguese dictatorship of Salazar (1926-1968) forced the fado performers to become professional and confined them to sing in the fado houses and the so called "revistas", a popular genre of "vaudeville".
		The essential element of fado music is “saudade,” a Portuguese word that translates roughly as longing, or nostalgia for unrealized dreams.
	www.worldmusiccentral.org /staticpages/index.php/fado (848 words)

	Feeling Wistful, Lovelorn And Sort Of Somewhere Else Where You Shouldn't Be? Be Damned And Listen To A Few Fados \| ...
		And I suppose it would only sound right on a proper fado guitar (is there a particular name for this type of instrument?) and not on a Les Paul, a Harmony archtop or a cheapo Korean acoustic.
		Arto: there are two types of (12-string) Portuguese guitar - this little tutorial is in acceptable English and should answer your questions.
		Portuguese mandolin master Julio Pereira has a great web site (in English as well) with just about everything one needs to know about the varieties of Portuguese traditional music and the many local variations on the guitar and mandolin.
	www.metafilter.com /mefi/25394 (2310 words)

	Arpa Viola Caipira
		John commented that the range of the harp guitar with treble strings could be comparable to that of a piano.
		Also, The English translation “country guitar” is much too general and the Brazilian people that I have talked to always referred to the instrument as a “viola caipira” even when speaking in English.
		Regular guitar tuners limit bass headstock design since they must be installed close to the edge so that one can have access to the tuners.
	www.harpguitars.net /luthiers/hoyt/avc1.htm (4360 words)

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