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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 ]
Puerto Rican singer-songwriter Christian Nieves played a cuatro on the 2017 hit single "Despacito" by Luis Fonsi featuring Daddy Yankee; [11] the instrument, as strung for left-handed playing, appears at 3:32 of the song's official music video, which became the most-viewed video on YouTube on August 4, 2017.
The Bordonúa is the least common of the three stringed instruments that make up the Puerto Rican orquesta jibara (i.e., the cuatro, the tiple and the Bordonúa). [ 1 ] The Bordonua usually has three sound holes, with a large central one and two smaller ones in the two corners of the upper bout.
The music culture in Puerto Rico during the 16th, 17th, and 18th centuries is poorly documented. Certainly, it included Spanish troubadour, church music, military band music, and diverse genres of dance music cultivated by the jíbaros and enslaved Africans and their descendants.
Noisemaker is a musical instrument which is not Used for music but rather for noisemaking: unpitched percussion: musical instrument Pahū Pounamu: idiophones: New Zealand, Traditional Maori Gong: tam-tam Piano (pianoforte) also used melodically, see chordophones: chordophones: 314.122-4-8: Italy: stringed instruments: keyboard hammmer-struck ...
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
Tiple (Puerto Rico) This page was last edited on 4 April 2024, at 20:34 (UTC). Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 ...
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).