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This article is about the music genre. For the database of forged documents, see FADO. For other uses, see Fado (disambiguation). Fado Stylistic origins Portuguese music Cultural origins Early 19th-century Lisbon, Portugal Typical instruments Guitarra Portuguesa : Portuguese guitar Viola : virtually identical to, and sometimes called guitarra clássica (classical guitar) but traditionally uses steel strings. Viola baixo : a four string Portuguese version of acoustic bass guitar developed during the 1960s. More recently a double bass may be used instead. Derivative forms Coimbra Fado Fado ( Portuguese pronunciation:  [ˈfaðu] ; "destiny, fate") is a music genre that can be traced to the 1820s in Lisbon, Portugal, but probably has much earlier origins. Fado historian and scholar Rui Vieira Nery states that "the only reliable information on the history of Fado was orally transmitted and goes back to the 1820s and 1830s at best. But even that information was frequently modif