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What is the Bandura?
A Ukrainian string instrument.
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What is Mbira?
An African instrument with a wooden board with metal tines.
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What is the Guiro?
A wooden instrument with notches on which a stick is rubbed to produce the sounds from Puerto Rico.
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What is the Oud?
A short neck lute from Israel, Middle East, North Africa and Western Asia.
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What is the Kora?
A west African 21 lute.
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What are cencerros?
Musical cowbells, used in percussion from South America.
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What is the Qanun?
A string instrument from the Middle East, played in a solo or ensamble, played in central asia? Also know as the kanun.
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What is the Talking Drum?
An hourglass shape drum from West Africa.
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What are claves?
Percussion instruments with short, thick dowels. Typically made of rosewood from Cuba.
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What is the Tabla?
A membranophone percussion drum instrument from India used in traditional, classical, pop and folk music.
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What is the Balafon?
A xylophone from Mali.
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What is the Contrabassoon?
A large instrument from the oboe family, bigger than the bassoon, from Latin bassus.
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What is the Dholak?
A south Asian two-headed hand-drum.
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What is the Marimba?
A percussion instrument with wooden bars from Guatemala.
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What is the Zampona?
Also known as the Siku, a traditional Andean panpipe from Peru and Bolvia.
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