Small Italian cymbals.Ĭencerro – A Spanish and Spanish American cowbell (with the clapper removed), struck with a wooden stick.Ĭenta – A two-headed cylindrical stick drum from Indonesia.Ĭetvorka – Quadruple flute with four pipes. The player inserts the thumb through the string and the rest of the fingers are used to clap.Ĭembali – 1. Sharaba Shastri brought the Carnatic flute to the fore of Carnatic music concerts as an influential instrument.Ĭáscara – The shell or sides of the timbales.Ĭáscara de coco – coconut shell used as a percussion instrument.Ĭastanets – Percussion instrument composed of two concave halves made out of wood or other materials. The flute is known in Kannada as venu, murali or kolalu in Telugu as pillanagrovi and in Tamil and Malayalam as pullanguzhal. [[Until the late 19th century, the Carnatic flute had never been used in concerts. Caracola means conch shell in Spanish.Ĭarapacho de jicotea – sea turtle shell used as a percussion instrument in Cuba.Ĭarnatic flute – an 8-hole bamboo flute, the South Indian equivalent of the North Indian 6-hole bansuri flute. Brazil.Ĭaracola – Wind instrument made out of a sea shell. Brazil.Ĭaracol marinho – Caracol marinho means sea snail in Portuguese. Country of origin: Brazil.Ĭaracalho – A bamboo scraper used by the També indians. Colombia and VenezuelaĬaracachá – A type of maraca made out of a small gourd filled with small stones. It is also called palo de lluvia which literally means rain stick in Spanish.Ĭapachos – Maracas containg capacho seeeds. It’s a rain stick from South America made out of cane with seeds or small stones inside. Spain.Ĭaña de agua – Caña de agua means water cane in Spanish.

Used in traditional Andalusian folk music. Spain.Ĭaña rajada – A slit reed made out of cane. Sometimes spelled in the plural feminine form: cántaras. Italy.Ĭántaro – Cántaro means water pitcher in Spanish. It is held tightly and the lower half is struck rhythmically to obtain a certain kind of clapping sound.Ĭannada – A Sardinian metallic container used by shepherds to replace the guitar. Percussion instrument.Ĭañaveira – A cane with a slit in the middle from Galicia, Spain. Variations include the cajón flamenco and caja.Ĭampana – Campana means bell in Spanish. Inspired by Afro-Peruvian music and flamenco, many international percussionists have added the cajón to their percussion collection. It became so popular within flamenco performers that it’s become an essential instrument in contemporary flamenco. The cajon-evolved from farm crates used to collect fruit.īrazilian percussionist Rubem Dantas, a member of Paco de Lucia‘s band, introduced the Peruvian cajón to Spanish flamenco. They come in varying sizes with open bottoms. It’s widely used in Afro-Peruvian music and modern Spanish flamenco. The cajón is straddled by its player who bends down to beat the box by hand.

Peru.Ĭajón – Cajón is a Peruvian and Cuban box drum made from a wooden hollowed box, originally used to store fish or fruit. The origin is the lidded box used for collections in Catholic churches. The lid is opened and closed with one hand, while the other hand hits the box with a wooden stick. Spain and Spanish-speaking America.Ĭajita – Cajita means small box in Spanish.

Country of origin: Portugal and Brazil.Ĭaja – Snare drum. Your Connection to traditional and contemporary World Music, including folk, roots, global music, ethno and crosscultural fusionsĬaixeta – Wood block percussion instrument.

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