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Castanets seller in Granada, Spain Pierre-Auguste Renoir's 1909 painting Dancing girl with castanets. Castanets, also known as clackers or palillos, are a percussion instrument (), used in Spanish, Calé, Moorish, [1] Ottoman, Italian, Mexican, Sephardic, Portuguese, Philippine, Brazilian, and Swiss music.
Rondalla Alginet, beginning 1900's. The rondalla has its origins in the folk playing bands from Spain that were forerunners of the present-day rondalla and included four types: groups of young men who played and sang regularly in front of homes, bands of musicians known as murza or murga who begged for alms, a group of musicians known as comparza who played on stage, and groups of university ...
Pictures Pictures Adufe [1] Pandeiro [2] A frame drum brought to Iberia by Muslims and played mainly by women. [3] Used in the charamba in Portugal, a circle dance for couples. [3] The adufe is a square or rectangular frame drum usually made of pine, over which is mounted a goat's skin.
Catalan musical instruments (11 P) G. Galician musical instruments (1 C, 2 P) S. Spanish musical instrument makers (3 C, 5 P) Pages in category "Spanish musical ...
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).
They toured Europe and America, and their performances created a stir that helped the mandolin to become widely popular. Although the modern instruments date to the 18th century, ancestral instruments of similar construction and range, the mandore and gittern , were used across Europe (including Spain, Italy, England, France, Germany and Poland ...
An assortment of musical instruments in an Istanbul music store. This is a list of musical instruments , including percussion, wind, stringed, and electronic instruments. Percussion instruments (idiophones, membranophones, struck chordophones, blown percussion instruments)
The Music of Andalusia encompasses a range of traditional and modern musical genres which originate in the region of Andalusia in southern Spain. The most famous are copla and flamenco , the latter being sometimes used as a portmanteau term for various regional musical traditions within Andalusia.