Instrument index

Añáchi

Subjects: Instruments of the Ava people

Andean bass drum

Also: bombo.

Subjects: Andean ensembles and sound practices · Recordings, repertories, and circulation

Andean transverse flute

Also: Andean transverse flutes.

Subjects: Andean ensembles and sound practices · Historical sources and organological documentation · Transverse flutes

Andean whistle

Also: Andean whistles.

Subjects: Andean ensembles and sound practices · Whistles and whistling vessels

Angúa guásu

Subjects: Instruments of the Ava people

Angúa rái

Subjects: Instruments of the Ava people

Animal-skull instruments

Subjects: Instruments and animal materials

Bajón

Also: bajones.

Subjects: Trumpets and horns

Banda mocha horn

Also: gourd horn.

Subjects: Recordings, repertories, and circulation · Trumpets and horns

Bullroarer

Also: bullroarer.

Subjects: Bullroarers

Buxíxh

Subjects: Duct flutes · Instruments of the Chiquitano people

Caña de millo

Also: flauta de millo, pito atravesao.

Subjects: Recordings, repertories, and circulation · Traditional clarinets

Charango

Subjects: Andean ensembles and sound practices · Recordings, repertories, and circulation

Chirimía of Cauca

Also: chirimía flute.

Subjects: Andean ensembles and sound practices · Historical sources and organological documentation · Transverse flutes

Deer-eye rattles

Also: deer-eye shakers.

Subjects: Historical sources and organological documentation · Instruments and animal materials · Rattles and shakers

Double flute

Also: double flutes.

Subjects: Andean ensembles and sound practices · Double flutes

Erkencho

Also: erque, erke, erkencho, irqi.

Subjects: Andean ensembles and sound practices · Traditional clarinets

External-duct flutes

Subjects: Duct flutes

Furro

Also: furruco.

Subjects: Friction drums · Recordings, repertories, and circulation

Gaita of Cajamarca

Also: gaita of Hualgayoc.

Subjects: Andean ensembles and sound practices · Double flutes

Hathpang

Subjects: Bowed chordophones · Historical sources and organological documentation

Huari whistling bottle

Also: Huari whistling vessel.

Subjects: Musical archaeology · Whistles and whistling vessels

Iguaéru

Subjects: Instruments of the Ava people · Trumpets and horns

Kamacheña

Also: camacheña, quenilla, Easter flute, Chaco flute.

Subjects: Andean ensembles and sound practices · Historical sources and organological documentation · One-handed flutes · Quenas and notch flutes

Lithophone

Also: sounding stalactites.

Subjects: Musical archaeology · Struck idiophones

Long Andean trumpet

Also: clarín, erque, caña, corneta.

Subjects: Andean ensembles and sound practices · Trumpets and horns

Mbiké

Subjects: Bowed chordophones · Historical sources and organological documentation

Michi rái

Subjects: Instruments of the Ava people

Mohoceño

Also: mohoseño, moseño, moxeño.

Subjects: Andean ensembles and sound practices · Pinkillos, tarkas, and Andean duct flutes

Musical bow

Also: musical bows.

Subjects: Musical bows

Natïraixh

Subjects: Duct flutes · Instruments of the Chiquitano people

One-handed flutes

Subjects: Andean ensembles and sound practices · Historical sources and organological documentation · One-handed flutes · Quenas and notch flutes

Orellana’s arrabel

Also: Amazonian arrabel.

Subjects: Bowed chordophones · Historical sources and organological documentation

Panpipe

Also: pan flute, panpipes.

Subjects: Andean ensembles and sound practices · Historical sources and organological documentation · Instruments and animal materials · Panpipes · Sikus and sikuri bands · Struck idiophones

Pinguyo

Subjects: Instruments of the Ava people

Pinkillo

Also: pinkillu, pinquillo.

Subjects: Andean ensembles and sound practices · Pinkillos, tarkas, and Andean duct flutes

Quena

Also: kena.

Subjects: Andean ensembles and sound practices · Musical archaeology · Quenas and notch flutes · Recordings, repertories, and circulation

Sananáx

Subjects: Instruments of the Chiquitano people · Trumpets and horns

Scissors of the Scissors Dance

Also: musical scissors.

Subjects: Andean ensembles and sound practices · Bowed chordophones · Struck idiophones

Siku

Also: panpipe, zampoña.

Subjects: Andean ensembles and sound practices · Panpipes · Recordings, repertories, and circulation · Sikus and sikuri bands

South American clarinets

Subjects: Historical sources and organological documentation · Traditional clarinets

Tarka

Also: tarqa, anata, pinkillu, pinkayllu.

Subjects: Andean ensembles and sound practices · Pinkillos, tarkas, and Andean duct flutes

Temímby guásu

Subjects: Instruments of the Ava people

Temímby púku

Subjects: Instruments of the Ava people

Temímby ye piása

Subjects: Instruments of the Ava people

Traditional clarinets

Subjects: Traditional clarinets

Traditional violin

Also: traditional fiddles.

Subjects: Andean ensembles and sound practices · Bowed chordophones · Struck idiophones

Turtle shell

Also: sounding turtle.

Subjects: Instruments and animal materials · Panpipes · Struck idiophones

Turúmi

Subjects: Instruments of the Ava people

Tyopïx

Subjects: Duct flutes · Instruments of the Chiquitano people

Wakaránty

Subjects: Instruments of the Ava people · Trumpets and horns

Waqra phuku

Also: waqrapuku, wakrapuku.

Subjects: Andean ensembles and sound practices · Instruments and animal materials · Trumpets and horns

Wax-head flute

Also: wax-head flutes.

Subjects: Duct flutes · Wax-head flutes

Whistles of the Ava people

Subjects: Instruments of the Ava people · Whistles and whistling vessels

Yoresoma

Subjects: Duct flutes · Instruments of the Chiquitano people

Yoresóx

Subjects: Duct flutes · Instruments of the Chiquitano people