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Also known as chirimía, chirisuya

thumb|The chirimía on the left is from Jacaltenango, Guatemala, and the one on the right is from Antigua, Guatemala.

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Chirimía
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thumb|The chirimía on the left is from Jacaltenango, Guatemala, and the one on the right is from Antigua, Guatemala.

Chirimía (sometimes chirisuya in Peru) is a Spanish term for a type of woodwind instrument similar to an oboe. The chirimía is a member of the shawm family of double-reed instruments, introduced to North, Central and South America in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries by the Spanish clergy.

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