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Latin percussion is a family of percussion, membranophone, lamellophone and idiophone instruments used in Latin music. ... a similar Afro-Cuban instrument; Surdo ...
It is a form of urban contemporary music, often combining other Latin musical styles, Caribbean and West Indies music, (such as reggae, soca, Spanish reggae, salsa, merengue and bachata. [9] It originates from Panamanian Reggae en Español and Jamaican dancehall, however received its rise to popularity through Puerto Rico.
From the guitarron and the requinto to the guiro and the tololoche, these are some of the instruments responsible for música Mexicana's distinct qualities. Get to know the instruments behind ...
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.
Banda is a subgenre of regional Mexican music and type of ensemble in which wind (mostly brass) and percussion instruments are performed. The history of banda music in Mexico dates from the middle of the 19th century with the arrival of piston brass instruments, when community musicians tried to imitate military bands. The first bandas were ...
Panama is a Central American country, inhabited mostly by mestizos (persons of mixed African, European and indigenous ancestry).The music of Panama is heavily based on the folk music of Spain, particularly that of Andalusia and was influenced first by the indigenous populations of Kunas, Teribes, Ngobe Bugle and others, and then by the black population who were brought over, first as slaves ...
Membranophone instruments include the Makawa, or kakel kultrung, a double-headed drum; and the Kultrun or Cultrun, a ceremonial drum and the most important musical instrument in Mapuche culture, used by the machi (healer or sorcerer) for religious and cultural rituals.
A maraca (pronunciation ⓘ), sometimes called shaker or chac-chac, [1] is a rattle which appears in many genres of Caribbean and Latin music.It is shaken by a handle and usually played as part of a pair.