Europeana
musical instrument, flute, flute
Water flute, El Salvador, Central America. Music and religious practice go often hand in hand. It can be a drum that is beaten monotonously, a rattle that has like a rattle snake sound, a single person´s advanced musical instrument that is only heard, or it can be an orchestra with choir. Here is a water flute from the Native village Nahuizalco in El Salvador where it was collected in the end of the 1890s. It accompanied the brass band music in the church which was visited by the faithful Catholic Natives, the Pipil who spoke the Aztec language of Central Mexico. However, the people of Nahuiza
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