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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. In ancient Greece and ancient Rome there was a similar instrument called the crotalum.
Spanish musical instrument makers (3 C, 5 P) Pages in category "Spanish musical instruments" ... Palmas (music) R. Rabel (instrument) Requinto; T. Tambori; V. Vihuela
Instruments commonly used as unpitched and/or untuned percussion. Instruments commonly part of the percussion section of a band or orchestra. These three groups overlap heavily, but inclusion in any one is sufficient for an instrument to be included in this list. However, when only a specific subtype of the instrument qualifies as a percussion ...
Palmas is a handclapping style which plays an essential role in flamenco music. It used to help punctuate and accentuate the song and dance.Palmas can be a substitute for music, such as in the corrillo at the end of a show, and palmistas can assist the musicians by keeping a strong tempo, or the dancer by accentuating the end or beginning of a phrase.
Tarrañolas (Asturian and Spanish: tejoletas) are strips of wood held between the fingers. Charrasco consists of a pole with a frame on the top adorned with tambourine rattles; it is played by rubbing a string along the pole with a stick. Other percussion instruments are canaveira and carraca.
[citation needed] Non-traditional instruments were often added, such as the accordion (in place of the bandoneon), saxophone, clarinet, ukulele, mandolin, electric organ, etc., as well as lyrics in non-Spanish languages. European tango became a mainstream worldwide dance and popular music style, alongside foxtrot, slow waltz, and rumba.
The güira (Spanish pronunciation:) is a percussion instrument from the Dominican Republic used in merengue, bachata, and to a lesser extent, other genres such as cumbia.It is made of a metal sheet (commonly steel) and played with a stiff brush, thus being similar to the Haitian graj (a perforated metal cylinder scraped with a stick) and the Cuban guayo (metal scraper) and güiro (gourd scraper).
Latin percussion is a family of percussion, membranophone, lamellophone and idiophone instruments used in Latin music. Instruments. Afro-Cuban and Puerto Rican styles