Henrique Cazes cavaquinho. This is absolutely beautiful!

[Joel Glassman]

...and very mandolin-like.
Cazes plays Waldir Azevedo's "Minhas Mãos meu Cavaquinho"

[Jeff Hildreth]

Henrique Cazes inspired me to play and build cavaquinhos.

He is an outstanding musician and I believe has a cavaco school.

The tuning is dgbd one octave higher than guitar. The alternate tuning is dgbe.

[Joel Glassman]

He is a great musician. I believe Clara Nunes' cavaquinho player
[can't think of his name] tuned his instrument GDAE.
The player on this tribute to her [at around 3 minutes in]
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A6z7Wzx5nCk
sounds like GDAE. Maybe not. Playing the the chord inversion
sounds of cavaquinho on GDAE is terribly hard.
Big stretches...

[John Morton]

Henrique Cazes narrates and participates in a video survey and travelogue about the cavaquinho. Four 1 hr. episodes. Brush up on your Portuguese, or at least skip between music segments.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RUcplYiu5oE

[delsbrother]

Lots of bandolim therein..

The luthier stuff is great too. Dig the wood-fired hot pipe at the 29 minute mark!

[Al Bergstein]

very nice! Thanks!

[eadg145]

Wow. That's really beautiful.