Essential Salsa Instruments Explained
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ScribdTranslationsInstruments of Salsa
Conga
Also called tumbadora, it is a
percussion instrument
membranophone, single-head,
developed in Cuba.
Cowbell
It is a percussion musical instrument. The
bells can be fixed to a support and
they are shaken idiophones. They are struck with
wooden drumsticks specially
designed for this instrument.
They are usually made of copper, steel, or
in steel alloy. They are used in different
sizes to achieve various sounds
depending on the style of music in which
used sea.
Güiro
It is a percussion instrument. It is
classified within the division of the
idiophones, in the branch of scrapers. The
different types of güiro produce emission
of sound when scraping a stick over its
grooved surface. The traditional güiros
they come from dry gourd like the pumpkin
and the maracas.
Maracas
It is a shaken idioophone
consisting of a hollow spherical part
sustained by a handle that goes through it or
is adhered to it. Inside it is filled
with small percussive elements, such as
small stones, seeds, pieces of
glass, small pieces of metal, rice,
etc.; those which produce sound when struck
against the inner wall of the sphere.
Trombone
It is a wind musical instrument from the family of
wind-metal. The sound is produced thanks to the
vibration of the interpreter's lips in the part
called nozzle from the column of
air (airflow). The different notes are obtained
by the movement of a mobile tube, called a rod,
lengthening the distance that the vibrating air must
traveling, producing sounds in this way that
they can also be controlled with more or less
air pressure blown by the performer into the rod,
the column of air lengthens and the sound produced
is more serious, each position lower than the previous one.
Trumpet
It is a wind musical instrument.
belonging to the family of the
brass instruments
made of metal alloy. The
sound is produced thanks to the
vibration of the interpreter's lips
in the part called nozzle to
starting from the air column.
Bongo
It is a direct struck membranophone.
made up of a game of two
slightly wooden bodies
truncated cones, one smaller than
the other, united by a ribbon of
wood. Their upper mouths – those of
major diameter - are covered by
hairless leather that is tensioned with a
metal ring through keys
metallic.
Timbale
It is a musical instrument of
low-pitched percussion, which
it can produce dry hits or
resonant. It is used by hitting the
patches with a toothpick or stick
special called "timbale stick".
It is mainly formed by a
copper cauldron, covered by a
membrane.
Keys
They are a wooden percussion instrument
agitated formed by a pair of sticks
solid wooden cylinders. Its diameter
is approximately 2.5 centimeters by
a length of 20 cm. The sound is produced
upon striking one against the other. The performer
you must try to hold the instrument
using the smallest possible area, to
do not drown the sound