The Samba de Roda is also distinguished by specific dance steps like the miudinho, the use of the viola machete - a small lute with pluckedstrings from Portugal, as well as scraped instruments, and responsorial songs.
Often beautiful women or handsome men would be associated with these messages, enhancing the ability of the hippocampus to deeply store memories of the political and commercial messages which plucked the neurological strings of our limbic systems.
The hollow body, made of mulberry wood, is shaped in the form of a figure eight and is held horizontally, while the eleven metal strings are plucked with a plectrum.