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Charango (Cordophones)
A Guitar, indigenous replica of the spanish guitar, that its approximate total length is about seventy centimeters. It has a wooden neck, similar to the european instruments, the front part or the top has and 8 shape, like the guitar. The resonance box is of the shell of a quirquincho. It´s formed by ten strings, tuned in five double orders, mainly metallic.
In Chile it is used in the Big North up to the province of Antofagasta. There are also other instruments with other origins, such as:

Ocarina (Aerophones)
The use of the Ocarina has been lost in the Chilean North; but is kept in Putre, on the zone of Belen in Aiquina and in the Bolivian highlands.
Its length variates from 15 to 28 centimeters and its diameter goes from 5 to 10 cms. It is hard to make and to play, that´s why it´s been lost.

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