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  2. Music of Guatemala - Wikipedia

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    Many kinds of instruments were used, but they essentially broke down into two categories, being wind instruments (aerophones) and percussion instruments (idiophones). The wind instrument family consisted of cane and bone flutes, different types of whistles, ocarinas of various designs, and other sibilant vessels.

  3. Category:Guatemalan musical instruments - Wikipedia

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  4. Chirimia - Wikipedia

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    Usage of the chirimía varies widely across Iberomerica and Iberia itself, with the instrument being extinct in some areas, but a living tradition in others. The chirimía and drum are used to accompany religious processions and annual commemorative dance-dramas in many remote areas of Latin America, including Jacaltenango, Guatemala. The music ...

  5. Category:Music of Guatemala - Wikipedia

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    Guatemalan musical instruments (3 P) M. ... Pages in category "Music of Guatemala" The following 8 pages are in this category, out of 8 total. ... you agree to the ...

  6. List of national instruments (music) - Wikipedia

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    This list contains musical instruments of symbolic or cultural importance within a nation, state, ethnicity, tribe or other group of people.. In some cases, national instruments remain in wide use within the nation (such as the Puerto Rican cuatro), but in others, their importance is primarily symbolic (such as the Welsh triple harp).

  7. Guatemalans - Wikipedia

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    Guatemala's national instrument is the marimba, an idiophone from the family of the xylophones, which is played all over the country, even in the remotest corners. Towns also have wind and percussion bands that play during the Lent and Easter -week processions, as well as on other occasions.

  8. Punta - Wikipedia

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    Aerophones are instruments that create sound through vibrating air within a column or tube, like pipes and horns. [9] Other instruments used in the Garifuna culture include calabash rattles called shakkas (chaka) and conch-shell trumpets. The two principle Garifuna instruments are single-headed drums known as the primera and segunda. [1]

  9. Culture of Guatemala - Wikipedia

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    Chiltepe, a common pepper used on some Guatemalan dishes. Chipilín Tamal, a common dish usually eaten at dinner. Guatemalan cuisine reflects the multicultural nature of Guatemala, in that it involves food that differs in taste depending on the region. Guatemala has 22 departments (or divisions), each of which has different food varieties.