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The trutruca or trutruka (Spanish ''trutruca'') is a The Machupe People
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The trutruca or trutruka (Spanish ''trutruca'') is a wind instrument
A wind instrument is a musical instrument that contains some type of resonator (usually a tube) in which a column of air is set into vibration by the player blowing into (or over) a mouthpiece set at or near the end of the resonator. The pitch ...
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trumpet
The trumpet is a brass instrument commonly used in classical and jazz musical ensemble, ensembles. The trumpet group ranges from the piccolo trumpet—with the highest Register (music), register in the brass family—to the bass trumpet, pitche ...
family. It is played mainly by the Mapuche
The Mapuche ( , ) also known as Araucanians are a group of Indigenous peoples of the Americas, Indigenous inhabitants of south-central Chile and southwestern Argentina, including parts of Patagonia. The collective term refers to a wide-ranging e ...
of Chile
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and Argentina
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. It produces a loud harsh sound, with few tonal variations.
Description
The instrument has two main parts, the body and horn. The body is made from Chilean bamboo (''Chusquea culeou
''Chusquea culeou'', the Chilean bamboo, () is a species of flowering plant in the grass family Poaceae. An evergreen bamboo native to South America, unlike most species within the genus ''Chusquea'', it is frost-tolerant and thus widely cultiva ...
'') and is between 2 and 5 meters long and 2 to 10 cm in diameter. The cane is cut lengthwise into two halves and then wound with string, wire, wool and animal gut, usually horse, to prevent air escaping.
The notes are produced from the variations in the pressure caused by blowing and also by the position of the lips.
See also
*Alphorn
The alphorn (; ; ) is a traditional lip-reed wind instrument. It consists of a very long straight wooden natural horn, with a length of , a conical bore and a wooden cup-shaped mouthpiece. Traditionally the alphorn was made in one piece from ...
* Erke
The erke (alternatively erque, coroneta, or quepa) is a large labrosone (lip reed) instrument native to the Gran Chaco of Bolivia, northern Chile, and the Argentine Northwest.
Construction
The erke is composed of two or more lengths of cane ...
References
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