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| Joaquim Moreira, craftsman of musical instruments |
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In the Northwest, and especially in the Minho, the popular instruments that they are more representative in the characteristic music of this region are of stringed variety. These are used in the music-making festive groups called "Rusgas" which have nothing ceremonious about them, and are often, in fact, improvised. These improvised groups can be seen on numerous occasions on their way to religious or other festivities, in gatherings, in certain collective groups. Rusgas are usually composed of a guitar, a ukelele, a violin, and rhythmic instruments such as a small drum, triangles, percussion instruments, castanets, as well as others like clarinets, flutes, cellos and guitars. Today these instruments are disappearing slowly in favour of barrel organs, harmonicas, concertinas and, more recently accordions. Joaquim António Jesus Moreira, 44, learned your art by the 20 years of age with your father Alberto Moreira beginning, at that date, produce musical instruments of string variety (guitars, ukeleles and mandolins). Nowadays, besides the work that develops at own workshop, Joaquim not only builds instruments as well as restore and recover them. Joaquim Moreira is an artisan aware of the importance of the formation in the area of the construction of string instruments (for instance in Guimarães' Workshop). The Portuguese guitar according to the specialists is probably a national late version of European Cistro of the century XVI or XVII that it was very appreciated in England on the epoch. It was called by the significant name of "English guitar", him own perhaps inheritor of medieval Cedras or Citolas. These ancestors of Cistro, even after the time of the troubadours, they continued possibly to be used among us; In fact, are perhaps Cedras or Citolas the instruments that we see represented in the high front of the Church of Our Lady of Oliveira, in Guimarães. |
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