Latin American music has been highly influential globally, blending styles like tango, salsa, and merengue with pop and jazz. Musical instruments play an important cultural role in Latin America. The document describes several percussion instruments commonly used in Latin American music, such as maracas, claves, bongo drums, conga drums, and cabasa. It also profiles string instruments like the Puerto Rican cuatro, tiple, and charango, as well as wind instruments including panpipes and trumpets made from materials like conch shells, tree bark, and bamboo.

1. Lesson 16
Musical
Instruments of
Latin American

2. Latin American Music
 has bee.n one of the most influence kinds of
music in the world. Different musical styles
such as tango, cha-cha, samba, rumba,
salsa, and merengue were blended with
Northern pop and jazz music that gave birth
to the popularity of Latin American pop
singers.
 Musical instruments play an important role in
the cultural of Latin American countries.

3. Precussion
Instruments

4.  The macaracas is a
pair of dried gourds
with wooden
handles. They are
played by shaking.
Each piece of this
may be filled with
beads, beans, or
pebbles.

5. Claves
 are pairs of round,
hardwood sticks that
are tapped together.
They are used to
play a special
ongoing syncopated
rhythm that keeps a
steady rhythm and
tempo.

6. Bongo Drum
 is a pair of drums
struck by the hands.
The first piece is the
larger than the
other. That drums
that are connected
by a piece of wood.

7. Congo Drum
 is a single extra-tall
bongo, struck with
the player’s hands.
These come in four
different sizes.

8. Cabasa
 looks like a wooden
spool with metal
beads wound
around it and a
wooden handle. It is
played by twisting
the beads back and
forth using the palm.

9. Steel Drums
 are tuned metal
barrels.

10. Puerto Rican Cuatro
 is a small four-
stringed instrument
similar to the largest
ukulele.

11. Tiple
 is found in the
Andes mountain
regions of
Venezuela and
Colombia. It has
four double or triple
sets of strings that
are used to
accompany a
certain music.

12. Charango
 is a lute-shaped
instrument with five
pairs of strings.
Originally, it is made
from an Armadillo’s
shell.

13. Wind
Instruments

14. Panpipes
 are known as
antaras and
zampanias, a type of
woodwind
instrument from the
Andes mountains,
now Peru.

15. Trumpets
 are wind
instruments that are
made from couch
shells, tree barks
and bamboo.