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Category for musical instruments of Jamaica. Pages in category "Jamaican musical instruments" This category contains only the following page.
Mento is a style of Jamaican music that predates and has greatly influenced ska and reggae music. Lord Flea and Count Lasher are two of the more successful mento artists. Well-known mento songs include Day-O, Jamaica Farewell and Linstead Market.
Jamaican Mento Music - site created by Michael Garnice (comprehensive information on the history and the musicians who made the music) Ivan Chin - Mento music's pages on mento pioneer Ivan Chin. The Mento dance is a Jamaican folk form dance with the instruments acoustic guitar, banjo, hand drums and the rhumba box
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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 ...
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 ...
The musical instrument, which has 6 wires and is the main instrument in traditional Iranian music, is produced by Mazzrab. 314.122-4: Ireland: Irish Harp (Cruit or Cláirseach) Polychord wire-strung harp with a fore-pillar 322.221: Ireland: Great Irish Warpipes Píob Mhór: In modern times this instrument is essentially identical to the Great ...
The marímbula is usually classified as part of the lamellophone family of musical instruments. Unlike typical African lamellophones, such as the mbira , used to produce complex polyphony and polyrhythms, the marimbula usually plays the role of a bass guitar , i.e. providing the rhythmic and harmonic support for a band, although it can produce ...