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Peru

Instruments

Name: Cuijada de burro [Donkey Jawbone]

Type: Struck > Percussion

Region: Peru > South America

Source: Vancouver Folk Festival, y2006.

Description: The cuijada de burro is a struck-percussion instrument in which it is selected from a donkey's jaw bone. Hence its name "cuijada de burro" is held by the left hand by the mandables. The cuijada de burro is struck by the right hand in a closed fist.