List of Caribbean chordophones

This is a list of chordophones used in the Caribbean music area, used in the Caribbean music area, including the islands of the Caribbean Sea, as well as the musics of Guyana, Suriname, French Guiana, Belize, Garifuna music, and Bermuda.

List of musical instruments- see
Drum = "calorine"
See = "tambou maringouin"List of musical instruments
Drum = banjo
Number = 321.312
Tradition = Belize
Type = Guitar, used in "Brukdown"
Other names = List of musical instruments
Drum = bass guitar
Number = 321.322
Tradition = Jamaica
Type = Guitar, used in popular styles like ska, reggae and rocksteady
Other names = List of musical instruments
Drum = bass guitar, electricManuel, pg. 82]
Number = 321.322
Tradition = Trinidad and Tobago
Type = Electric bass guitar, used in soca
Other names = List of musical instruments
Drum = bass guitar, electricManuel, pg. 82]
Number = 321.312
Tradition = Garifuna music
Type = Electric bass guitar, used in punta
Other names = List of musical instruments
Drum = bass guitar, electricManuel, pg. 82]
Number = 321.312
Tradition = Belize
Type = Electric bass guitar, used in Brukdown
Other names = List of musical instruments
Drum = bass, upright
Number = 321.322
Tradition = Cuba
Type = Used in popular "son" ensembles, where it replaced the more traditional "marimbula" and "botija"
Other names = List of musical instruments
Drum = "cuatro"
Number = 321.322
Tradition = Dominican Republic
Type = Stringed instrument, part of some popular "merengue" groups' instrumentation
Other names = List of musical instruments
Drum = "cuatro"
Number = 321.322
Tradition = Puerto Rico
Type = Five-stringed instrument
Other names = List of musical instruments
Drum = guitarcite journal|first=Harold|last=Courlander|journal=The Musical Quarterly|volume=28|title=Musical Instruments of Cuba|issue=2|month=April|year=1942|pages=227–240|doi=10.1093/mq/XXVIII.2.227]
Number = 321.322
Tradition = Cuba
Type = Guitar, used for the "Zapateo" dance and other rural music
Other names = List of musical instruments
Drum = guitarManuel, pg. 43]
Number = 321.322
Tradition = Dominican Republic
Type = Guitar, part of some popular "merengue" groups' instrumentation
Other names = List of musical instruments
Drum = guitar [Manuel, pg. 73]
Number = 321.322
Tradition = Haiti
Type = Guitar, used in "méringue"
Other names = List of musical instruments
Drum = guitarManuel, pg. 75]
Number = 321.322
Tradition = Jamaica
Type = Guitar, used in popular styles like ska, reggae and rocksteady
Other names = List of musical instruments
Drum = guitar [Berrian, pg. 44]
Number = 321.322
Tradition = Martinique and Guadeloupe
Type = Guitar, used in "zouk"
Other names = List of musical instruments
Drum = guitar [Manuel, pg. 79]
Number = 321.322
Tradition = Trinidad and Tobago
Type = Guitar, used in traditional calypso, introduced from Venezuela
Other names = List of musical instruments
Drum = guitar, electric
Number = 321.322
Tradition = Trinidad and Tobago
Type = Electric guitar, used in soca
Other names = List of musical instruments
Drum = guitar, electric
Number = 321.312
Tradition = Garifuna music
Type = Electric guitar, used in punta
Other names = List of musical instruments
Drum = "laúd"
Number = 321.321
Tradition = Cuba
Type = Seven double-stringed mandolin, used in "son" and other fields
Other names = List of musical instruments
Drum = "maringouin, tambou"cite journal|title=Musical Instruments of Haiti|first=Harold|last=Courlander|journal=The Musical Quarterly|volume=27|issue=3|month=July|year=1941|pages=371–383|doi=10.1093/mq/XXVII.3.371]
Number = 3
Tradition = Haiti
Type = Earth bow, made from a covered hole in the ground, across which a bow is laid
Other names = "calorine"List of musical instruments
Drum = piano
Number = 3
Tradition = Cuba
Type = Used in popular genres like "son"
Other names = List of musical instruments
Drum = piano
Number = 3
Tradition = Dominican Republic
Type = Part of some "merengue" bands
Other names = List of musical instruments
Drum = "seis"
Number = 321.322
Tradition = Cuba
Type = Six double-stringed guitar
Other names = List of musical instruments
Drum = "sitar" [cite journal|title=Brotherhood of the Boat: Musical Dialogues in a Caribbean Context|first=Tina K.|last=Ramnarine|journal=British Journal of Ethnomusicology|volume=7|year=1998|pages=1–22]
Number = 3
Tradition = Trinidad and Tobago
Type = Indo-Caribbean stringed instrument
Other names = List of musical instruments
Drum = "tres"Manuel, pg. 30]
Number = 321.322
Tradition = Cuba
Type = Three double-stringed guitar, used in "son" and other rural folk genres
Other names = List of musical instruments
Drum = violin
Number = 321.322
Tradition = Dominican Republic
Type = Stringed instrument
Other names =

References

*cite book|first=Peter|last=Manuel|title=Popular Musics of the Non-Western World: An Introductory Survey|publisher=Oxford University Press|location=New York|year=1988|id=ISBN 0195063341

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