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The Portuguese guitar, also called fado guitar, is a chordophone with 6 pairs of strings and a pear-shaped harmonic box.
There are two main models of Portuguese guitars:
Lisbon guitars have a snail-shaped volute and a narrower box. They refine B - A - E - B - A - D from the highest strings to the most serious ones and are used mainly in the fado ...
The Portuguese guitar, also called fado guitar, is a chordophone with 6 pairs of strings and a pear-shaped harmonic box.
There are two main models of Portuguese guitars:
Lisbon guitars have a snail-shaped volute and a narrower box. They refine B - A - E - B - A - D from the highest strings to the most serious ones and are used mainly in the fado of Lisbon.
The guitars of Coimbra have a teardrop-shaped volute and the harmonic box is a little deeper. They tune a tone below the guitars of Lisbon, namely A - G - D - A - G - C. It is possible to tune the guitars of Coimbra with the tuning of Lisbon by putting a guitar strings game for Lisbon, but the opposite is no longer valid.
Since fate has been considered as Intangible Heritage of Humanity by Unesco, interest in this instrument has increased significantly.
The Portuguese guitar is an instrument essentially melodic, that fills the spaces left by the singer, being the rhythm and the harmony guaranteed by the viola de fado.
The Portuguese guitar, or fado guitar, as well as other European cistres, seems to have resulted from the evolution of the European Renaissance cistre, both at the level of the tuning and the level of the construction of its interior and exterior.
The cistre was strongly present in the music of court of all Europe, but especially in Italy, France and England, from the middle of the century XVI until the end of century XVIII.
This Portuguese guitar APC 308LS is a Lisbon model, that is, it is prepared to use the so - called Lisbon tuning (B - A - E - B - A - D, from treble to bass), which is currently the most used Portuguese guitar tuning.
Initially it was called "fado tuning" or "tuning of fado corrido", probably having been developed in the early nineteenth century, being mostly adopted by fado singers in Lisbon in the middle of that century.
With the reduction of the use of the natural tuning by the guitarists, this tuning came to be called simply tuning of Lisbon, when tuned acutely in D, or tuning of Coimbra, when tuned in C. This is because in Coimbra, students began to usually fine-tune their guitars in C, mainly through the influence of Artur Paredes.
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