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  2. Category:Caribbean musical instruments - Wikipedia

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    Central American and Caribbean percussion instruments (1 C, 26 P) H. Haitian musical instruments (5 P) J. Jamaican musical instruments (1 P) P.

  3. List of Caribbean chordophones - Wikipedia

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    Used in popular son ensembles, where it replaced the more traditional marimbula and botija: cuatro [4] Dominican Republic: 321.322 Stringed instrument, part of some popular merengue groups' instrumentation cuatro [4] Puerto Rico: 321.322 Five-stringed instrument guitar [3] [5] Cuba: 321.322 Guitar, used for the Zapateo dance and other rural ...

  4. List of Caribbean aerophones - Wikipedia

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    Conch shell horn, used for signalling, traditional drumming. cornet [6] Trinidad and Tobago: 4 Used in traditional calypso: flute [1] Dominican Republic: 4 Used to accompany upper-class merengue in the later 19th century harmonium [7] Indo-Caribbean: 4 Used in chutney music: kartal [7] Trinidad and Tobago: 4 Harmonium, used in chutney: lambis ...

  5. List of Caribbean idiophones - Wikipedia

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    Historically, idiophones (percussion instruments without membranes or strings) have been widespread throughout the Caribbean music area, which encompasses the islands and coasts of the Caribbean Sea. Some areas of South America that are not geographically part of the Caribbean, but are culturally associated with its traditions, such as Guyana ...

  6. List of Caribbean folk music traditions - Wikipedia

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    The Caribbean music area includes all the islands of the Caribbean, including Cuba, Antigua and Barbuda, Montserrat, Saint Lucia, Virgin Islands, Puerto Rico, Dominican Republic, Haiti, Saint Kitts and Nevis, Saint Vincent and the Grenadines, Anguilla, Martinique, Dominica, Grenada, Guadeloupe and Trinidad and Tobago.

  7. List of Caribbean membranophones - Wikipedia

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    Instrument Tradition Hornbostel–Sachs classification Description agbe: See chekere: agida [4] [5]: Suriname: 211.212 Afro-Surinamese bass drum that sets a steady beat for folk music, played with a stick, of the set with apinti and tumao, pitch can be varied based on the location of the head struck, made from hollow logs with heads of skin, used in spiritual ceremonies, where it is associated ...

  8. Merengue music - Wikipedia

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    The traditional instrumentation for a conjunto típico (traditional band), the usual performing group of folk merengue, is a diatonic accordion, a two–sided drum, called a tambora, held on the lap, and a güira. A güira is a percussion instrument that sounds like a maraca. It is a sheet of metal with small bumps on it (created with hammer ...

  9. Music of Barbados - Wikipedia

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    The music of Barbados includes distinctive national styles of folk and popular music, including elements of Western classical and religious music.The culture of Barbados is a syncretic mix of African and British elements, and the island's music reflects this mix through song types and styles, instrumentation, dances, and aesthetic principles.

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