Articles
Space for longer and academic articles on musical instruments and related topics
The mandolins collection at the instruments museum of the UFRJ music school: musicological aspects
15.set 2020
The Islamic culture introduced various musical instruments in Spain and in the South of Italy, amongst them the mandolins’ ancestor. A result of the Arab culture that enriched the West, its origins go back to a small pear shaped instrument with round bottom, which has been used in Medieval Europe of the 10th Century.

By Paulo Sá
Restoration of the instruments of the Delgado de Carvalho Museum
15.set 2020
Article designed from interviews with the luthiers responsible for the restoration of selected instruments from the Delgado de Carvalho Instrumental Museum. We show the process of restoration of the collection, focusing especially on five instruments: two flutes, a bassoon and two mandolins.

By Adriana Ballesté & Álea de Almeida
The arrival of the musical instrument reco-reco (guiro) in Brazil
06.jul 2020
The instruments introduced in Brazil by the European colonizer were added to the African beat here and assimilated by a singular racial combination. This is how the casaca of Congo bands from Espírito Santo, the spring reco-reco of the samba schools from Rio de Janeiro and the bajo of Cavalo Marinho from Pernambuco rose, amongst other examples.

By Pedro Sá
Remarkable aspects of the guitar’s presence in the brazilian culture
06.jul 2020
Although his first instrument was the piano, when by the end of 1967, Tom Jobim was invited to take part in the TV show A Man and His Music starred by Frank Sinatra for NBC, it was handling a guitar that the Brazilian musician revealed the bossa-nova beat to the world, making the genre internationally consecrated and identified as the Brazilian way of musical accompaniment ever since.

By Marcia Taborda