chirimia
Sign in to saveAlso 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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- Country of origin
- Mexico
- Image
- ChirimiaGuatemala.jpg
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- Chirimía
- Hornbostel-Sachs classification
- 422.11
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- Extinct
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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.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “chirimia” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.