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Title: Mexico - Man playing chirimía, between 1960-1964
Contributor: Borcherdt, Donn
Date Created and/or Issued: between 1960-1964
Contributing Institution: UCLA, Ethnomusicology Archive
Collection: Donn Borcherdt Collection
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Description: A chirimía is a type of oboe, a double reed instrument. It is a member of the shawm family of double-reed instruments, introduced to Central and South America in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries by the Spanish clergy.
Type: image
Identifier: ark:/21198/zz002jz6q1
Subject: Musicians--Mexico
Chirimía (Musical instrument)--Mexico
Source: Donn Borcherdt Collection

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