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The most common tuning is D,G,B,D (from lower to higher pitches); other tunings include G,G,B,D and A,A,C#,E. Guitarists often use D,G,B,E tuning to emulate the first four strings of the guitar. The origins of this Portuguese instrument are not easily found. Gonçalo Sampaio, who explains the survival of Minho’s archaic and Hellenistic patterns by eventual Greek influences upon the ancient calaics of the region, puts an accent on a link between this instrument and those historical tetrachords. The author sustains that the cavaquinho and the guitar may had been introduced in Braga by the "biscaínhos". In Spain there is a similar instrument to this Portuguese "cavaquinho", belonging to the guitar family called the "," Chulas ", " Males ", " Canas-verdes ", " Verdegares ", " Prins ". It became an important instrument in Brazilian music, especially Samba and Choro . The standard Tuning is D-G-B-D. Some of the most important players and composers in the instrument's Brazilian incarnation are Waldir Azevedo and Paulinho Da Viola . The cavaquinho is also found in other places were the Portuguese made an imprint, namely Cape Verde and USA (especially Hawaii ), and also in these it became an important part of the typical music of those places. The Hawaiian islands have a similar instrument to the cavaquinho called the ukulele which was brought to the island by Portuguese people. The Hawaiian Ukulele has four strings and a similar shape to the portuguese cavaquinho. The cavaquinho was introduced in Hawaii by Augusto Dias, Manuel Nunes, and João Fernandes in 1879. EXTERNAL LINKS
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