What is it?

Ukuleleblues · Mar 27, 2011

Was playing at a Spring Festival today. One of the bands was playing a Ukulele looking instrument. What do you think it was????

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y5cimLhT20I

Here are some other pics we took: country - ukes (us) - new wave country - bluegrass - Gospel - classic rock and Brazillian Salsa. Strange combo but it sounded great.

http://www.charlestonhotshots.com/breath-of-spring-2011

OldePhart · Mar 27, 2011

Kind of hard to tell from the video - kind of looked and sounded like it might be a guitarlele, though.

Couldn't tell how many strings, though. Could be any one of several uke-like South American instruments.

John

itsme · Mar 27, 2011

OldePhart said:
Kind of hard to tell from the video - kind of looked and sounded like it might be a guitarlele, though.

Couldn't tell how many strings, though. Could be any one of several uke-like South American instruments.

Looked too small for a guitarlele to me. Charango or something, maybe?

mm stan · Mar 27, 2011

Yeah a south amercian instrument come to mind...hard to tell with the video...

soulpowerbreaks · Mar 27, 2011

Easy! That's a Cavaquinho.

greenway · Mar 27, 2011

I'm going for Cavaquinho as well!

jop · Mar 27, 2011

The Brazilian song and the Cuica certainly points towards a cavaquinho.

Ukuleleblues · Mar 27, 2011

I spoke to the player and he said it was a cavaquinho. He said it was tuned DABD for salsa Music with the second D being an octive higher than the first D.

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