instrumentos

Colombian music

CUMBIA

• Drums: Hollow trunk of large enough wood of double patch cow leather.
• Gouache: Metal cylinder filled with seeds of doormat or river stones.
• Maracas: Elaborated with the tree of totumo in its interior they carry seeds of mason or rocks of the river.
• Small Flute: Made of mille cane
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VALLENATO

• Diatonic Accordion: An instrument of Austrian origin, invented in its present form by Kiril Demian in Vienna in 1829 and was smuggled in by German immigrants from Curacao through Riohacha (on the shores of La Guajira) around 1885. The vallenato musicians modify it To produce its characteristic sound.
• Box: Percussion instrument of African origin. It is a small drum whose patch was made of alligator, then black marimonde skin and now of goat hide, deer or ram. The vessel is made of a hollow tree trunk 40 cm high and 30 cm in diameter. The tree must be of fibrous trunk, like mucurutú, cañahuate or matarratón.
• Guacharaca: 40 cm long concave friction instrument made from the stem of the can uvita. Its name comes from the guacharaca or wild bird, bird of mount whose song is similar to the sound that produces the instrument.
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LLANERA

• Harp: It has 32 or 33 nylon strings of different calibers and organized in the musical scale. Regularly made in cedar, although there are manufacturers that use pine and other durable woods. Transparent lacquer is used in your paint so you do not lose sound.
• Four: Its name derives from the strings that it owns and is a modification of the "fifth" and appears at the end of century XVI. At first it was elaborated with pieces of wood and strings of vegetal fiber very hard.
• Maracas: Made of totumitos, in some of the regions a maraca was bigger and its sound was more serious and was said to him "macho"; The other was called "cascabel" or "cascabelina". It is deposited with seeds of the mat and hence its name "maracas mats", or "mats".
• Bandola: It consists of a soundboard, smaller than a guitar and has 4 strings. It has very few frets and is played with pen. In Colombia the bandola replaces the harp in some groups.
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