Portuguese guitar

Portuguese Guitar
Guitarra Portuguesa
Left: Coimbra guitar; right: Lisboa guitar
String instrument
Classification String instrument
Related instruments
English guitar - Cittern

The Portuguese guitar (Portuguese: guitarra portuguesa, pronounced [ɡiˈtaʁɐ puɾtuˈɣezɐ]) is a plucked string instrument with twelve steel strings, strung in six courses of two strings. It is one of the few musical instruments that still uses watch-key or Preston tuners. It is iconically associated with the musical genre known as fado.

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