List of Caribbean aerophones

This is a list of aerophones used in the Caribbean music area, used in the Caribbean music area, including the islands of the Caribbean Sea, as well as the musics of Guyana, Suriname, French Guiana, Belize, Garifuna music, and Bermuda.

List of musical instruments
Drum = accordion
Number = 4
Tradition = Dominican Republic
Type = Used in popular" merengue", where it replaced the guitar.
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Drum = accordion
Number = 3
Tradition = Belize
Type = Used in Belizean "Brukdown".
Other names = List of musical instruments- see
Drum = "bois bourrique"
See = "vaccine"List of musical instruments
Drum = "botija"cite journal|first=Harold|last=Courlander|journal=The Musical Quarterly|volume=28|title=Musical Instruments of Cuba|issue=2|month=April|year=1942|pages=227–240|doi=10.1093/mq/XXVIII.2.227] Manuel, pg. 30]
Number = 4
Tradition = Cuba
Type = Empty jug, sometimes with a hole on the side, used in rural folk genres like "son"
Other names = "botijuela", "bunga"List of musical instruments- see
Drum = "botijuela"
See = "botija"List of musical instruments
Drum = buglecite journal|title=Carnival, Calypso, and Steelband in Trinidad|first=Ernest D.|last=Brown|journal=The Black Perspective in Music|volume=18|issue=1/2|year=1990|pages=81–100|doi=10.2307/1214859]
Number = 4
Tradition = Trinidad and Tobago
Type = Original source of the melody in steelpan
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Drum = "bunga"
See = "botija"List of musical instruments
Drum = "cayambouque"
Number = 4
Tradition = Haiti
Type = Cow horn, used for signalling
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Drum = clarinetManuel, pg. 79]
Number = 4
Tradition = Trinidad and Tobago
Type = Used in traditional calypso
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Drum = clarinet
Number = 4
Tradition = Trinidad and Tobago
Type = Later addition to the tamboo bamboo ensembles
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Drum = "conchshell"
Number = 423.110
Tradition = Garifuna music
Type = Conch shell horn, used for signalling, trational drumming.List of musical instruments
Drum = cornet
Number = 4
Tradition = Trinidad and Tobago
Type = Used in traditional calypso
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Drum = fluteManuel, pg. 43]
Number = 4
Tradition = Dominican Republic
Type = Used to accompany upper-class "merengue" in the later 19th century
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Drum = harmonium
Number = 4
Tradition = Indo-Caribbean
Type = Used in chutney music
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Drum = "kartal"cite journal|title=Brotherhood of the Boat: Musical Dialogues in a Caribbean Context|first=Tina K.|last=Ramnarine|journal=British Journal of Ethnomusicology|volume=7|year=1998|pages=1–22|url=http://links.jstor.org/sici?sici=0968-1221%281998%297%3C1%3A%22OTBMD%3E2.0.CO%3B2-S|accessdate=March 13|accessyear=2008]
Number = 4
Tradition = Trinidad and Tobago
Type = Harmonium, used in "chutney"
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Drum = "lambis"
Number = 423.11
Tradition = Haiti
Type = Conch shell horn, used for signalling
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Drum = saxophone
Number = 4
Tradition = Garifuna music
Type = Used in Garifuna "Punta"
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Drum = saxophone
Number = 4
Tradition = Dominican Republic, Cuba,
Type = Used in "merengue", where it is the main instrumentation for the "jaleo". Used in popular Cuban bands.
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Drum = trumpet
Number = 4
Tradition = Cuba
Type = Used in "comparsa" pre-Easter celebrations
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Drum = trumpet
Number = 4
Tradition = Trinidad and Tobago
Type = Later addition to the tamboo bamboo ensembles
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Drum = trumpet [cite journal|title=Embedded Truths: Creativity and Context in Spiritual Baptist Music|first=Stephen D.|last=Glazier|journal=Latin American Music Review / "Revista de Música Latinoamericana"|volume=18|issue=1|month=Spring - Summer|year=1997|pages=44–56|doi=10.2307/780325]
Number = 4
Tradition = Trinidad and Tobago
Type = Used in the Spiritual Baptist musical tradition
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Drum = "vaccine"cite journal|title=Musical Instruments of Haiti|first=Harold|last=Courlander|journal=The Musical Quarterly|volume=27|issue=3|month=July|year=1941|pages=371–383|doi=10.1093/mq/XXVII.3.371]
Number = 423
Tradition = Haiti
Type = Made of bamboo
Other names = "bois borrique"List of musical instruments
Drum = "von-von"
Number = 412.22
Tradition = Haiti
Type = Bullroarer, used in "Rara" ceremonies
Other names =

References

*cite book|first=Peter|last=Manuel|title=Popular Musics of the Non-Western World: An Introductory Survey|publisher=Oxford University Press|location=New York|year=1988|id=ISBN 0195063341

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