{"id":25,"date":"2018-10-25T09:51:55","date_gmt":"2018-10-25T09:51:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.folkreps.com\/store\/?post_type=product&p=25"},"modified":"2025-03-31T09:29:29","modified_gmt":"2025-03-31T09:29:29","slug":"portuguese-fado-guitar-lisbon-style-305ls","status":"publish","type":"product","link":"https:\/\/www.folkreps.com\/store\/store\/product\/portuguese-fado-guitars\/lisbon-style\/portuguese-fado-guitar-lisbon-style-305ls\/","title":{"rendered":"Portuguese Fado Guitar Lisbon Style GF305LS"},"content":{"rendered":"

Fado (translated as destiny or fate) is a music genre which most likely originated in the 1820s in Portugal, but probably with much earlier origins. It is characterized by mournful tunes and lyrics, often about the sea or the life of the poor.<\/p>\n

The music is usually linked to the Portuguese word saudade, a word with no accurate English translation. (It is a kind of longing, and conveys a complex mixture of mainly nostalgia, but also sadness, pain, happiness and love). Some enthusiasts claim that Fado’s origins are a mixture of African slave rhythms with the traditional music of Portuguese sailors and Arabic influence. Lisboa e Coimbra main differences There\u2019s two different tunes for the Portuguese Guitar Lisbon and Coimbra curiously it\u2019s the name of two important Cities of our country; the 1st is the Capital of Portugal and the other is the most important University City.<\/p>\n

For those 2 methods there are different shapes. They\u2019re diverse since the “volute\u201d at Lisbon Guitar it ends in a curl, at Coimbra\u2019s ends in the shape of a tear. The resonating body has different sizes: Lisbon\u2019s smaller then Coimbra\u2019s. Stringing are also distinct: \u00b7 At Lisbon\u2019s strings are 10 (si) 8(l\u00e1) and 6(mi) \u00b7 At Coimbra\u2019s strings are 8, 6 and 4 (because the instrument tunes in a tone bellow). Speaking of soul can look quite strange, but it\u2019s neaded even to play guitar. As it is an instrument of common roots, with no classical characteristics and it\u2019s even played with no musical learning lessons, its understood that its a major passion learning how to play an instrument just by hearing its sounds and trying to pressure the fingers against the strings.<\/p>\n

As I already told, the identification between the person and the instrument is absolutely unique when its played it stirs up our ears for the purest of the sounds as it is so clear, that\u2019s why we currently use the expression “This sound is in my soul!…” it reminds “Saudade” a mist of love and sorrow, a word that has no translation for any other language, used even by our ancestrals when they left the quay…”for seas never explored before”…<\/p>\n

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Specifications:<\/p>\n

Top – Solid Spruce
\nBacks and sides – Sapelli
\nNeck – Mahogany
\nFingerboard – African Blackwood
\nPortuguese Machine heads – Nickel
\nStrings Type: Steel \u2013 12 Strings
\nTuning – (1st) bb, aa, EE, Bb, Aa, Dd
\nScale Length \u2013 440 mm
\nFinish: High Gloss<\/p>\n

European model instrument, certified wood FCS and CITES
\nMade in Portugal<\/p>\n

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*The rosette design may change according to existent stock!<\/p>\n

(Due to the aleatoric nature of the natural wood changes in wood shape and tone color may occur)<\/p>\n

LEAD-TIME: Hand-Manufactured to order, please allow 15-30 working days to dispatch.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":3730,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":""},"product_brand":[],"product_cat":[17,16],"product_tag":[49,50],"class_list":{"0":"post-25","1":"product","2":"type-product","3":"status-publish","4":"has-post-thumbnail","6":"product_cat-lisbon-style","7":"product_cat-portuguese-fado-guitars","8":"product_tag-lisboa","9":"product_tag-lisbon","11":"first","12":"instock","13":"shipping-taxable","14":"purchasable","15":"product-type-simple"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.folkreps.com\/store\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/product\/25","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.folkreps.com\/store\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/product"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.folkreps.com\/store\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/product"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.folkreps.com\/store\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=25"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.folkreps.com\/store\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3730"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.folkreps.com\/store\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=25"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"product_brand","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.folkreps.com\/store\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/product_brand?post=25"},{"taxonomy":"product_cat","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.folkreps.com\/store\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/product_cat?post=25"},{"taxonomy":"product_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.folkreps.com\/store\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/product_tag?post=25"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}