Yes, it is. (And I sure hope I can learn to play some for the traditional Brazilian repertoire.)
I don't want to stray too far afield from HG but this ties to a concurrent thread. The cavaquinho evolved from the Portugese machete (one T in Portugese), or machete de braga, which apparently was Manuel was playing in the book. The ukelele appears to have evolved from the cavaqunho (or maybe just directly from the machete), which is why the cavaquinho gets called a baritone ukelele but that's not such a great name for it since the tuning is so different - like guitar and not uke. Also, unlike use, it traditionally only had steel strings, though I read that some people use a combination. I plan to experiment. Trish On Apr 9, 2011, at 1:26 PM, Augusto de Ornellas Abreu wrote: > Is this Brazilian ukulele a "cavaquinho"? > > Lots of great repertoire for that, a great deal of Brazilian traditional > music uses cavaquinhos... > > On Sat, Apr 9, 2011 at 3:27 PM, Patricia Lipscomb <[email protected]> wrote: > >>> > >>> On Apr 7, 2011, at 2:18 PM, Jon Lucas wrote: > >>> > >>> > >>> > >>>> I'm especially interested in old Scottish > >>>> songs and transcribing themes from classical music and adapting them > >>>> to the HG. > > > I would LOVE to hear what you find of old Scottish tunes that sit well on a > HG and classical themes you transcribe. Please keep us all posted. > > BTW I've just had a relapse of AMIS (Acquisition of Musical Instruments > Syndrome). Just bought a Brazilian baritone ukelele (its 4 strings are a > subset of the 6 strings of a guitar) and am learning simple tunes. Lots of > fun, at least as much as one can have without a drone. > > Trish > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google > Groups "hurdygurdy" group. > To post to this group, send email to [email protected] > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to > [email protected] > For more options, visit this group at > http://groups.google.com/group/hurdygurdy > > The rules of posting, courtesy, and other list information may be found at > http://hurdygurdy.com/mailinglist/index.htm. To reduce spam, posts from new > subscribers are held pending approval by the webmaster. > > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google > Groups "hurdygurdy" group. > To post to this group, send email to [email protected] > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to > [email protected] > For more options, visit this group at > http://groups.google.com/group/hurdygurdy > > The rules of posting, courtesy, and other list information may be found at > http://hurdygurdy.com/mailinglist/index.htm. To reduce spam, posts from new > subscribers are held pending approval by the webmaster. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "hurdygurdy" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/hurdygurdy The rules of posting, courtesy, and other list information may be found at http://hurdygurdy.com/mailinglist/index.htm. To reduce spam, posts from new subscribers are held pending approval by the webmaster.
