Image Sounds Cavaquinho South American Ukulele WAV-DECiBEL

This sound has nothing to do with the wonders that the cavaquinho is capable of producing, it seems to be something wrong and poorly done, about lack of ideas, poor and poorly done solos and pure spanish-influenced music, simplicity is sometimes good, I like it, but not here.

This instrument was born speaking Portuguese, the true name is cavaco, only Brazilians call it cavaquinho.

Cavaquinho is not the South American Ukulele.
Comparing two instruments that are so different, with absurdly different histories, is like saying that the piano is a pipe organ outside the church, or an accordion is a hand piano ("Piano Da Braccio").
There comes a certain time in human evolution when we no longer need to use "support crutches" to understand things, after more than 2000 years of philosophy from ancient Greece to today, it is regrettable that there are still brains that refuse to reason. We still use terms borrowed from the past 19th and 20th centuries, because that time we were still understanding new inventions and technologies within a world full of language defects, stupid moral vices and idiotic beliefs.
Today we say "board the plane", but that was a term only used for wooden boats where there was a 'wooden board' to climb onto (for millennia, the only material used to build boards was wood). Then, in the 20th century, came the airplane, but our grands used the same terms used for boats. Today we climb the stairs to get the plane and we still use the same term for the catachresis of the past.

The word board meant to enter the wooden box floating in the water, Starboard in nautical terms, is the right side of someone on a boat.
Eng: "Starboard" = "a estibordo, dritta" and 'bombordo is the left side'.

The flight attendant says: "Welcome aboard".

And amazingly, the word comes from the Latin: barca, which means boat, therefore in most languages derived from Latin and english that use a lot of latim inside it is still used: 'in barca; in navi' = 'em barco, embarcar'

English: to board ;
Italian: Imbarco, a bordo ;
French: Embarquer ;
Romanian: a se îmbarca ;
Spanish and Portuguese: embarque.

And what they did with the old boards, they must have fallen into the water and they are driftwood boards, just like some human beings version 1.0, who compare cavaquinho with ukulele.

Or the author is much smarter than all of us, and creates this title to sell his product to a dumb majority. Or he is inherently stupid.

Not detracting from this wonderful Ukulele instrument and its great master "Israel Kamakawiwo'ole", the cavaquinho is capable of producing brilliant and singing sounds, or that "crying sound", as well as serving only as strumming accompaniment in the samba.

Born a music genre 'Cry=Choro' > that there is nothing to the word 'Choir'. From the word 'choro=cry', chorinho was born.

And for the love of God, don't make the disgusting mistake of calling 'chorinho genre' of 'brazilian samba', because it's very far from samba, and is also called: 'brazilian chorinho' (pt. Chorinho Brasileiro) or simply: 'chorinho'. I think I can risk it in the translation to "litte cry", and for the most intelligent musicians of the 21st century, it is a musical genre and not a musical style, as it closes in on itself and has no aspects, its characteristics are markedly Brazilian, and the unprepared ear may confuse it with Portuguese Fado, which originated from a rhythm from south Brazil called 'Lundú' (lundú was only instrumental music), than was taken to Portugal after colonization and added texts to sing (btw. I love fado).


If you have some minutes of patience to compare the poor stuff from here to the original way of playing the true cavaquinho.
If you want to understand what this fantastic instrument is, listen to the virtuoso Brazilian composer "Waldir Azevedo", playing his famous compositions, 'Brasileirinho', 'Lamentos', 'Pedacinhos do Céu' and 'Delicado'.

Brasileirinho (which in Germany has the ridiculous name: Amorada)

Everything that ends in "inho/a" means "little"...
i.e they say "little american = americaninho". So little Brazilian is Brasileirinho.
Then "cavaco=cavaquinho". Phoneme replacement "from c to qu".
"Little piano = pianinho". Vowels, 'o' drops out
[o=masc. ; a=fem. s at the end is only plural)

It's good to remember that this diminutive form (inho) means affection, when using "inho" it can just be something small, or that you have affection for it, which is the real case in here.

Lamentos (lamentation, mourn, regret)

Pedacinhos de Céu (little pieces of heaven)

Delicado (delicate, gentle): (Much played by organists: Klaus Wunderlich and Franz Lambert)

Don't confuse with the instrumental music 'apanhei-te cavaquinho' ('I got you cavaquinho') from 1914, before African-American jazz exploded, which is a piece written for solo piano by the Brazilian composer (born 1863-1934) in Rio de Janeiro: 'Erneto Nazareth'.