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  2. Güiro - Wikipedia

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    In Puerto Rico, the güiro often associated with the music of the jíbaro and is used in the musical genres of the plena, the seis, and the danza. [ 8 ] [ 9 ] In the Caribbean coast, the güiro was used in traditional, folk dance cumbia music and is still used in modern cumbia music. [ 7 ]

  3. Güira - Wikipedia

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    The güira (Spanish pronunciation:) is a percussion instrument from the Dominican Republic used in merengue, bachata, and to a lesser extent, other genres such as cumbia.It is made of a metal sheet (commonly steel) and played with a stiff brush, thus being similar to the Haitian graj (a perforated metal cylinder scraped with a stick) and the Cuban guayo (metal scraper) and güiro (gourd scraper).

  4. Peñuelas, Puerto Rico - Wikipedia

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    All municipalities in Puerto Rico are administered by a mayor, elected every four years. The current mayor of Peñuelas is Josean González Febres, of the New Progressive Party (PNP). He was first elected at the 2024 general elections. The city belongs to the Puerto Rico Senatorial district V, which is represented

  5. Puerto Rican cuatro - Wikipedia

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    The Puerto Rican cuatro (Spanish: cuatro puertorriqueño) is the national instrument of Puerto Rico. It belongs to the lute family of string instruments , and is guitar -like in function, but with a shape closer to that of the violin.

  6. Latin percussion - Wikipedia

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    1.1 Afro-Cuban and Puerto Rican styles. ... lamellophone and idiophone instruments used in Latin music. Instruments ... Guiro; Barril de bomba ...

  7. Afro-Caribbean music - Wikipedia

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    Afro-Caribbean music is a broad term for music styles originating in the Caribbean from the African diaspora. [1] These types of music usually have West African/Central African influence because of the presence and history of African people and their descendants living in the Caribbean, as a result of the trans-Atlantic slave trade. [2]

  8. Category:Puerto Rican musical instruments - Wikipedia

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    Category: Puerto Rican musical instruments. 3 languages. ... Tiple (Puerto Rico) This page was last edited on 4 April 2024, at 20:34 (UTC). Text ...

  9. Rafi Escudero - Wikipedia

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    In 1998, Escudero was named by Puerto Rico's governor Pedro Rosselló to join the board of directors of the Puerto Rican Institute of Culture and of the Luis A. Ferre Center for the Performing Arts (Centro de Bellas Arts). In 2001, he ran for the position of president of the New Progressive Party of Puerto Rico, however he withdrew from the ...