Viola Brasileira Strings
Viola Brasileira (Brazilian viola) is the generic name for a diverse category of hand chordophones with a resonance box (most in the shape of a figure 8), neck and double coursed strings, derived from the family of Euro-Latin aristocratic violas of the 16th, 17th and 18th centuries. Originating in Brazil throughout the 19th century (or perhaps before) and with many regional variants, some of them more rustic and others related to the Portuguese violas of the 19th century.Its repertoire, at least since the 19th century, has been predominantly oral, but since the 20th century printed methods for learning the violas have proliferated and, from the beginning of the 21st century, the first online courses in this tradition became available in Brazil.