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

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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

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