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Blues Guitar

The guitar has always been important to the blues, a musical style invented by African Americans in the 1800's. In the 1940's, blues musicians in cities like Chicago started playing the electric guitar, giving blues a louder, steelier sound. 

The blues genre is based on the blues form but possesses other characteristics such as specific lyrics, bass lines, and instruments. Blues can be subdivided into several subgenres ranging from country to urban blues that were more or less popular during different periods of the 20th century. Best known are the Delta, Piedmont, Jump, and Chicago blues styles.

Mexico's Vera Cruz Harp

The Veracruz harp is featured in son jarocho, which is lively dance music from the Veracruz region of eastern Mexico. Son jarocho mixes musical styles that came to Mexico from Spain and Africa hundreds of years ago.

On smaller harps, like the folk harp, the core string material will typically be the same for all strings on a given harp. Larger instruments like the modern concert harp mix string materials to attain their extended ranges. A person who plays the harp is called a harpist or harper. Folk musicians often use the term "harper", whereas classical musicians use "harpist".

Scotland Bagpipes

Bagpipes are the national instrument of Scotland. It is claimed they can be heard miles away! Players, called pipers, blow air into a bag while squeezing it to force air into the sound-making pipes.

Though the Scottish Great Highland Bagpipe and Irish uilleann pipes have the greatest international visibility, bagpipes have been played for centuries throughout large parts of Europe, the Caucasus, around the Persian Gulf and in Northern Africa.

The term "bagpipe" is equally correct in the singular or plural, although in the English language, pipers most commonly talk of "the pipes" or "a set of pipes".

Bonang

In Indonesia, large groups of musicians called gamelans play only percussion instruments (gongs, chimes, xylophones, and drums). Here, a gamelan musician is playing a set of gongs called a bonang.

Sometimes it plays melodies based on the balungan, though generally modified in a simple way. However, it can also play more complex patterns, obtained by combining barung and panerus patters, such as the alternation of interlocking parts (imbal) and the interpolation of florid melodic patterns (sekaran).