A small 4-stringed instrument used in samba music. Originating in Portugal, it also was the inspiration for the Hawaiian instrument the ukulele.

The cavaquinho (pron. in European Portuguese and in Brazilian Portuguese) is a small string instrument of the European guitar family with four wires or gut strings. It is also called machimbo, machim, machete (in the Portuguese Atlantic islands and Brazil), manchete or marchete, braguinha or braguinho, and cavaco.

A very small acoustic quitar. [cavakeynyo].