Spanish musical instruments

thumb|200px| Castanets seller in Granada, [[Spain]] thumb|198px|Pierre-Auguste Renoir's 1909 painting Dancing girl with castanets Castanets, also known as clackers or palillos, are a percussion instrument (idiophonic), used in Spanish, Calé, Moorish, Ottoman, Greek, Italian, Mexican, Sephardic, Portuguese, Filipino, Brazilian, and Swiss music. In ancient Greece and ancient Rome there was a similar instrument called the crotalum.

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The vihuela () is a 15th-century fretted plucked Spanish string instrument, shaped like a guitar (figure-of-eight form offering strength and portability) but tuned like a lute. It was used in 15th- and 16th-century Spain as the equivalent of the lute in Italy and has a large resultant repertory. There were usually five or six doubled strings.

The bandurria is a plucked chordophone from Spain, similar to the mandolin and bandola, primarily used in Spanish folk music, but also found in former Spanish colonies.

thumb|A basque traditional alboka thumb|Video of an alboka being played thumb|Alboka players in Hermani, Gipuzkoa|Hernani thumb|Alboka players in Zeanuri The Basque '''''' () is a single-reed woodwind instrument consisting of a single reed, two small diameter melody pipes with finger holes and a bell traditionally made from animal horn. Additionally, a reed cap of animal horn is placed around the reed to contain the breath and allow circular breathing for constant play. In the Basque language, an alboka player is called . The alboka is usually used to accompany a tambourine singer.

string instrument played with hammers

thumb|Dulzaina being played thumb|The Muixeranga song (Xavi Richart, valencian dolçaina with tabalet drum). thumb|100px|Dolçaina (Valencian Community, [[Spain).]]

The flabiol () is a Catalan woodwind musical instrument of the family known as fipple flutes. It is one of the 12 instruments of the cobla. The flabiol measures about 25 centimeters in length and has five or six holes on its front face and three underneath.

thumb|A rondalla with laudes included thumb|English musician Steve Howe (musician)|Steve Howe playing the instrument at a Yes show in 2013

traditional bagpipe of Galicia

bagpipe used in the Spanish provinces of Asturias, northern León and western Cantabria

right|thumb|200px|Tamborí and keyed flabiol The tambori ( ) is a percussion instrument of about 10 centimetres diameter, a small shallow cylinder formed of metal or wood with a drumhead of skin. Its usual function is to accompany the playing of the flabiol in a cobla band, beating the rhythm of the sardana, the traditional dance of Catalonia.

style of handclapping used in Flamenco music