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Hawaiian guitar
The Concise Oxford Dictionary of Music
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1996
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Hawaiian guitar. Type of guitar introduced by Portuguese which has distinctive str. tunings. The str. are ‘stopped’ with a small moveable metal bar which goes across all str., in order to obtain the characteristic portamento effect.
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