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  1. Typical instrumentsCaña de millo · kuisi · tambor alegre · tambor llamador · tambora · caja vallenata · guache · maracas · Güiro · Güira · Cabasa · diatonic button accordion · guacharaca · clarinet
    Etymology

    Most folklorists and musicologists, such as Narciso Garay, Delia Zapata Olivella, and Guillermo Abadia Morales, assume that cumbia is derived from the Bantu root kumbe "to dance", or any other of the many Bantu words with … See more

    Music and heritage

    Sociologist Adolfo Gonzalez Henriquez, in his work "La música del Caribe colombiano durante la guerra de independencia y comienzos de la República" (Music of the Colombian Caribbean during the war of independe… See more

    Instruments

    The original instruments used for the Cumbia were groups of “gaitas and the ones of flauta de millo”. There are also many drums and other wind-like instruments that were used to create this music in th… See more

    Controversy on the origin

    The origin of cumbia has been the subject of argument between those who attribute an indigenous ethno-musical origin, geographically located in the Depresión Momposina Province and those who argue the thesis o… See more

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