Panpipe players: Zampoņeros
In the Oruro Carnival there would not be missing aboriginal dances of the plateau
region and that is the case of the two groups of zampoņeros.
The panpipe it is a wind musical instrument typical of the bolivian plateau,
the coffers are compound by twelve pipes and the iras by eleven pipes; both
are complemented for any musical interpretation; a single one doesn't have all
the complete notes, they being tuned up to the piano. They also carry on sets of
taicas, maltas, licus and chuchullis complementing them with percussions
instruments as the drums, saucers and bass drums.
The customary of this dance is proper to the peasant of the bolivian plateau.
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