De Coimbra ao Rio de Janeiro: os violeiros da família Couceiro e sua participação nas exposições regionais e internacionais

Portuguese emigrants who moved to Brazil brought traditions and customs. Documents show that throughout the whole of the nineteenth century socalled guitar workshops peppered the streets of the centre of Rio, with Portuguese craftsmen making guitars of various kinds, later making way for the making of instruments in the traditional music shops, such as the “Rabeca de Ouro” (literally, Golden Fiddle), founded by João dos Santos Couceiro, who moved from Coimbra to Rio de Janeiro in 1871. During his career he presented his instruments in regional and international exhibitions, aspects that will be documented in this text.