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Latin jazz
- In Latin jazz
…of the vibraphone and the timbales, a pair of shallow single-headed drums with a metal casing. With players using sticks to strike not only the heads but also the metal rims and sides of the instruments, the timbales added several distinct timbres to the music’s rhythmic component.
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Puerto Rican music
- In stringed instrument: Ensembles
…scraper (guiro) and drums (timbales) produce the rhythmic part. Among the Imazighen (Berbers) of North Africa, groups of itinerant professional musicians typically play one or two gimbrī (lutes), a one-stringed fiddle (rendering a highly adorned melody), and percussion. In Senegal, lutes similar to the gimbrī are played by the…
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