List of Caribbean aerophones

List of aerophones used in Caribbean music, including the islands of the Caribbean Sea, Guyana, Suriname, French Guiana, Belize, and Bermuda.

Instrument Tradition Hornbostel–Sachs classification Description
accordion[1]
 Dominican Republic 4 Used in popular merengue, where it replaced the guitar.
accordion[1]
 Belize 3 Used in Belizean Brukdown.
bois bourrique See vaccine -
botija[2][3]
botijuela, bunga		 Cuba 4 Empty jug, sometimes with a hole on the side, used in rural folk genres like son
botijuela See botija -
bugle[4]
 Trinidad and Tobago 4 Original source of the melody in steelpan
bunga See botija -
cayambouque[5]
 Haiti 4 Cow horn, used for signalling
clarinet[6]
 Trinidad and Tobago 4 Used in traditional calypso
clarinet[7]
 Trinidad and Tobago 4 Later addition to the tamboo bamboo ensembles
conchshell[5]
{{{Other names}}}		 Garifuna music 423.110 Conch shell horn, used for signalling, traditional drumming.
cornet[6]
 Trinidad and Tobago 4 Used in traditional calypso
flute[1]
 Dominican Republic 4 Used to accompany upper-class merengue in the later 19th century
harmonium[7]
 Indo-Caribbean 4 Used in chutney music
kartal[7]
 Trinidad and Tobago 4 Harmonium, used in chutney
lambis[5]
 Haiti 423.11 Conch shell horn, used for signalling
saxophone[3]
 Garifuna music 4 Used in Garifuna Punta
saxophone[1]
 Dominican Republic, Cuba, 4 Used in merengue, where it is the main instrumentation for the jaleo. Used in popular Cuban bands.
trumpet[2][3]
 Cuba 4 Used in comparsa pre-Easter celebrations
trumpet[7]
 Trinidad and Tobago 4 Later addition to the tamboo bamboo ensembles
trumpet[8]
 Trinidad and Tobago 4 Used in the Spiritual Baptist musical tradition
vaccine[5]
bois borrique		 Haiti 423 Made of bamboo
von-von[5]
 Haiti 412.22 Bullroarer, used in Rara ceremonies

References
  • Manuel, Peter (1988). Popular Musics of the Non-Western World: An Introductory Survey. New York: Oxford University Press. ISBN 0-19-506334-1.

Notes
  1. Manuel, pg. 43
  2. Courlander, Harold (April 1942). "Musical Instruments of Cuba". The Musical Quarterly. 28 (2): 227–240. doi:10.1093/mq/XXVIII.2.227.
  3. Manuel, pg. 30
  4. Brown, Ernest D. (1990). "Carnival, Calypso, and Steelband in Trinidad". The Black Perspective in Music. 18 (1/2): 81–100. doi:10.2307/1214859. JSTOR 1214859.
  5. Courlander, Harold (July 1941). "Musical Instruments of Haiti". The Musical Quarterly. 27 (3): 371–383. doi:10.1093/mq/XXVII.3.371.
  6. Manuel, pg. 79
  7. Ramnarine, Tina K. (1998). "Brotherhood of the Boat: Musical Dialogues in a Caribbean Context". British Journal of Ethnomusicology. 7: 1–22. doi:10.1080/09681229808567270. JSTOR 3060707.
  8. Glazier, Stephen D. (Spring–Summer 1997). "Embedded Truths: Creativity and Context in Spiritual Baptist Music". Latin American Music Review. University of Texas Press. 18 (1): 44–56. doi:10.2307/780325. JSTOR 780325.
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