page_title: Cavaquinho
section_title: Cape Verde
hierarchical_section_title: Cavaquinho / International use / Cape Verde
caption_attribution_description: English: Two cavaquinhos. Many thanks to the Pentagrama music school for alowing me to take this picture.
context_page_description: The cavaquinho is a small Portuguese string instrument in the European guitar family, with four wire or gut strings.
  More broadly, cavaquinho is the name of a four-stringed subdivision of the lute family of instruments.
  A cavaquinho player is called a cavaquista.
context_section_description: In Cape Verde the cavaquinho was introduced in the 1930s from Brazil. The present-day Cape-Verdean cavaquinho is very similar to the Brazilian one in dimensions and tuning. It is generally used as a rhythmic instrument in Cape-Verdean music genres (such as morna, coladeira, mazurka) but it is occasionally used as a melodic instrument.
caption: Two cavaquinhos in Cape Verde.
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