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{{Infobox instrument
| name = Ferrinho
| image = Bino Branco with Ferrinho.jpg
| image_size = 300px
| caption = The singer Bino Branco from the band Ferro Gaita, playing a ''ferrinho''
| background = other
| classification = [[Scraped idiophone]]
| developed = Cape Verde
| related = [[triangle (musical instrument)|triangle]], [[güiro]]
}}
The '''ferrinho''' (in [[Cape Verdean Creole]] '''ferrinhu''' {{IPA|pt|feˈʁiɲu|}}) is a musical instrument, more precisely a scraped [[idiophone]]. It is made up by a metal bar (generally of iron) that is scraped by another metal object. The player holds the bar vertically, with its lower end in the palm of one hand and the upper end leaning against the shoulder. With the other hand, the player uses a metallic object, held horizontally, to scrape the bar with up-and-down movements. A custom-made ''ferrinho'' is usually 90 centimeters long, with a straight-angle section to ease handling.
The ''ferrinho'' is used to mark the rhythm in [[funaná]], a musical genre in [[Cape Verde]].
It is believed that the name “''ferrinho''” is an adaptation of “''ferrinhos''”, that is the name by which the [[Triangle (musical instrument)|triangle]] is known in popular music in Portugal. In spite of the name, the ferrinho is more similar to instruments like the ''[[güiro]]'' (scraped idiophone) than the triangle (directly struck idiophone).
==Depictions==
[[File:1000cve-back-amo.jpg|thumb|right|300px|A ferrinho in a Cape Verdean 1,000 escudos note issued since 2015]]
A ferrinho is depicted on the back of the [[Cape Verdean escudo|Cape Verdean 1,000 escudos note]] issued since 2015.
==Further reading==
*''Os Instrumentos Musicais em Cabo Verde'' (Brito, Margarida; Centro Cultural Português: Praia – Mindelo, 1998)
* ''Relatório Diagnóstico'' (Direcção Geral de Animação Cultural: Praia, 1988) - survey about musicians and musical instruments existing in Cape Verde
* ''[[Kab Verd Band]]'' ([[Carlos Filipe Gonçalves|Gonçalves, Carlos Filipe]]; Instituto do [[Arquivo Histórico Nacional (Cape Verde)|Arquivo Histórico Nacional]]: Praia, 2006)
==External links==
*[http://www.markusleukel.com/MP3/funana.mp3 Listening example] of Funaná music featuring a ferrinho and an accordion (From: [https://web.archive.org/web/20110714040153/http://www.markusleukel.com/DEUTSCH/Cabo_Verde_Projekt_Body.html Cabo Verde Projekt], a report in German about a project to document capverdian rhythms)
[[Category:Idiophones]]
[[Category:Cape Verdean musical instruments]]
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