Commons:Featured picture candidates/File:Man playing an acoustic brazilian guitar (Violão) on Marco Zero Square, Refice, Pernambuco, Brazil.jpg

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•  Info All by -- Wilfredor (talk) 18:44, 26 January 2020 (UTC)
•  Support Liking it - very different than what we usually see at FPC. Cmao20 (talk) 23:00, 26 January 2020 (UTC)
•  Support -- Johann Jaritz (talk) 04:29, 27 January 2020 (UTC)
•  Comment Very interesting and artistic! To me, the crop feels a bit tight, though. --Domob (talk) 05:26, 27 January 2020 (UTC)
•  Support Strong light seems to fit here. Nice sharpness and detail. --Podzemnik (talk) 06:57, 27 January 2020 (UTC)
•  Support --Llez (talk) 07:01, 27 January 2020 (UTC)
•  Support --Basotxerri (talk) 07:41, 27 January 2020 (UTC)
•  Support --Hockei (talk) 08:47, 27 January 2020 (UTC)
•  Comment that's fascinating, any more info on this thing? It seems that Violão is just the regular Brazilian word for guitar, but this is something special. It looks like some kind of modified en:resonator guitar. It has 7 strings instead of the regular 6, and two of them are playing high notes while being located above the bass strings. That's really unusual on a guitar, although both ukulele and five-string banjo have one (but only one) of these. Weird! --El Grafo (talk) 10:46, 27 January 2020 (UTC) PS: Maybe consider re-naming to something like [[:File:Man playing acoustic brazilian guitar (Violão) on Marco Zero Square, Refice, Pernambuco, Brazil.jpg]] ("Men" → "Man") after the nomination has finished and been processed.

 Done Thanks El Grafo, Answering your question, I have been researching this guitar and I think it is not documented, it seems to be a type of guitar manufactured in this State of Brazil. I'm going to try to contact the locals through friends to get more information and later I will give you a feedback. --Wilfredor (talk) 13:18, 27 January 2020 (UTC)

@Wilfredor: After taking a closer look, I wouldn't be surprised if it turned out to be a one-of-a-kind piece that was frankensteined together from different parts. It kind of looks like this was a regular classical/spanish guitar in the beginning, but then the sound hole was filled and a larger hole cut to fit in the resonator. There's a noticeable change in wood where the sound hole and surrounding rosette would be expected; and the radius at the bottom of the fret board does not fit the radius of the resonator. The pickguard obviously was added later as well. Dang, I wish I could see the rest of it, I wish I could hear it … --El Grafo (talk) 14:20, 27 January 2020 (UTC)

This type of guitar is quite common, that is, it was not just this guitar, I have seen this type of alteration in other guitars. I took more photos of this person (they are village singers who pass between home and house during Christmas performing varied songs), I also made a recording of the same instrument requesting the appropriate permission. The songs that they sing are generally improvised with phrases related to the moment and that have rhyme, with a jocular touch. --Wilfredor (talk) 14:32, 27 January 2020 (UTC)

El Grafo please, take a look to this guitar, It took me time to remember but I knew I had seen similar guitars before --Wilfredor (talk) 23:44, 28 January 2020 (UTC)

•  Support but per El Grafo. --Cart (talk) 11:44, 27 January 2020 (UTC)
•  Support I might be biased because I'm totally fascinated by the instrument, but I think this works as a picture. --El Grafo (talk) 14:20, 27 January 2020 (UTC)
•  Info Wilfredor (and anyone else) please do not re-name files and more around pages with redirects and stuff during a nomination. It will really mess up the codes that organize the FPs. Do all such thing after the nomination is closed. Please! I will clean upp this mess now for you, but do keep that in mind in the future. --Cart (talk) 14:49, 27 January 2020 (UTC)

Dear Cart I'm very sorry, I didn't know that this could cause a problem, this is my fault. This will not happen again --Wilfredor (talk) 15:14, 27 January 2020 (UTC)

Good to hear. That is why El Grafo wrote: "Maybe consider re-naming... ...after the nomination has finished and been processed." It is wise to read all of the advice when it is given. Here is another advice: Write your file names in Spanish (or Portuguese) like many other users do, since you do make mistakes from time to time with the English language. Spanish is a great language and works just as well as English for photo titles. --Cart (talk) 15:29, 27 January 2020 (UTC)

Dear Cart, I had not read the full El Grafo comment and after that I always confuse it with "antes" (before on spanish) because its similarity in vowels with "after". I usually put names in English because I think that Google could find them easily for a wider audience, my mistake was to copy the name of the category and try to use it as a file name. --Wilfredor (talk) 15:36, 27 January 2020 (UTC)

•  Support --Palauenc05 (talk) 18:19, 27 January 2020 (UTC)
•  Support --Ermell (talk) 22:12, 27 January 2020 (UTC)
•  Support--Agnes Monkelbaan (talk) 08:30, 28 January 2020 (UTC)
•  Support Daniel Case (talk) 17:48, 28 January 2020 (UTC)
•  Support --Frank Schulenburg (talk) 20:59, 28 January 2020 (UTC)
•  Support --Famberhorst (talk) 18:05, 29 January 2020 (UTC)

Confirmed results:

Result: 14 support, 0 oppose, 0 neutral → featured. /--Cart (talk) 11:24, 1 February 2020 (UTC)

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