Viola campaniça

The viola campaniça is a portuguese stringed musical instrument from Vila Verde de Ficalho, in the Serpa Municipality (South-eastern Portugal).^[1] It has 10 steel strings in 5 courses, tuned C3 C2, F3 F2, C3 C3, E3 E3, G3 G3.

Viola campaniça

String instrument
Other names	Viola campaniça
Classification	String instrument
Hornbostel–Sachs classification	(Composite chordophone)
Developed	Vila Verde de Ficalho, South-eastern Portugal.
Related instruments
Viola caipira, Viola beiroa, Viola braguesa, Viola da terra, Viola de arame, Viola sertaneja, Viola terceira, Viola toeira, Viola amarantina.

The adjective campaniço (kump-ah-NEE-soo) means literally "from the countryside".

External links

• The Stringed Instrument Database Archived 2014-01-14 at the Wayback Machine
• ATLAS of Plucked Instruments