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Also meaning Mexican cowboy, this suit is commonly worn by Mariachi.
What is a charo suit?
This country, also its own continent, has some of the oldest instruments on earth.
What is Australia?
In Native American music, this single, sacred instrument can be struck by everyone in the circle.
What is a drum?
These non-word syllables are used often with accents and glissandos in Native American Music.
What are vocables?
This instrument, used in Celtic music, is extremely similar to the violin.
What is the fiddle?
Made out of wood, this Native American instrument used the Pentatonic scale.
What is a flute?
This country, home of the Mariachi, is our neighbor to the south.
What is Mexico?
This drum from Japan is large and barrel-shaped.
What is a taiko?
This song form used in African music, uses a leader who sings a phrase and then is echoed by a group of singers.
What is Call- and- Response?
This large bellied stringed instrument plays bass notes in Mariachi.
What is a Guitarron?
In African culture, this and music are closely related.
What is dance?
More than 1000 indigenous languages are spoken throughout this continent.
What is Africa?
This instrument from Australia is very ornamented and meant to be hit together, rather than hit other instruments.
What are clapsticks?
What is circular breathing?
This fretless instrument from Japan has a square body and is covered with a membrane.
What is a Shamisen?
This is often hollowed out to make the body of the African percussion instrument, the shakere.
What is a gourd?
This continent, especially the northern 2/3rds is where Native American tribes lived for centuries.
What is North America?
This drum from Africa is carved from wood and has a drumhead made of animal skin.
What is a Djembe?
In Celtic bagpipes, this is used to fill the bag with air, which the player then pushed to push air over the reeds.
What is a blowpipe?
A koto from Japan is an example of this musical instrument consisting of a flat wooden sounds box with strings stretched across it, and played with the fingers.
What is a Zither?
a collection of poems, hymns and religious texts important in India
What are the Vedas?
This country has a population density of 171 people per square mile, compared to the U.S. with only 13.5/mile.
What is India?
What is the tabla?
This end-blown flute made from bamboo originated in Japan.
What is a shakuhachi?
What is a sitar?