Search results
Results from the WOW.Com Content Network
Trinidad and Tobago musical instruments (9 P) Pages in category "Caribbean musical instruments" The following 10 pages are in this category, out of 10 total.
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 ...
The dhantal (dandtal) is a long steel rod based percussion instrument (sounding similar to the triangle), which was adapted from the iron "bows" which yoked the oxen that pulled the carts on the estates in Guyana, Suriname, Trinidad and Tobago, other parts of the Caribbean. [1]
The instrument has a number of other names, such as marímbola (Puerto Rico), bass box, calimba (calymba), rhumba box, Church & Clap, Jazz Jim or Lazy Bass , and box lamellophone. Sound of a marímbula being played ⓘ African slaves of the Caribbean made musical instruments from whatever stray material they could lay their hands on.
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 music guitar [4] Dominican Republic: 321.322 Guitar, part of some popular merengue groups' instrumentation guitar [6] Haiti: 321.322 ...
The word boula can refer to at least four different drums played in the Caribbean music area. The Guadeloupean boula is a hand drum, similar to the tambou bèlè, and is used in gwo ka and special occasions likes wakes, wrestling matches and Carnival celebrations. It is a hand drum that plays low-pitched sounds and is played single-handed and ...
Indo-Caribbean: 4 Used in chutney music: kartal: Trinidad and Tobago: 4 Harmonium, used in chutney: lambis: Haiti: 423.11 Conch shell horn, used for signalling saxophone: Garifuna music: 4 Used in Garifuna Punta: saxophone: Dominican Republic, Cuba, 4 Used in merengue, where it is the main instrumentation for the jaleo. Used in popular Cuban bands.
This is a list of folk music traditions, with styles, dances, instruments and other related topics. The term folk music can not be easily defined in a precise manner; it is used with widely varying definitions depending on the author, intended audience and context within a work.