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Mayohuacán
Percussion instrument
Other namesBayohabao
Classification Percussion
Hornbostel–Sachs classification111.231
(Directly struck idiophone, individual percussion tube)
Developedc. 15th century
VolumeHigh
Related instruments
Teponaztli

The mayohuacán or bayohabao[nb 1] was a wooden slit drum played by the indigenous Taíno people of the Caribbean.[3][4] The instrument was played during sacred ceremonies, most notably the areíto.[4] The drum was made of a thin wood and was shaped like an elongated gourd that measured up to one metre long and half a metre wide. According to early accounts of the taíno such as Gonzalo Fernández de Oviedo y Valdés' La historia general y natural de las Indias (1526), the sound produced by the mayohuacán could be heard as far as a "league and a half away" (a league being a distance between 5.3 and 7.9 miles, or 8.0 and 11.2 km). These were played by leaders of the tribe as accompaniment to songs which were used to pass on customs and laws to younger generations.

See also

Notes

  1. ^ Various spellings exist based early accounts of the instrument and later interpretations, e.g. Ulloa: maiohauau; Pané, mayohabao;[1] Martyr, maguey.[2]

References

  1. ^ Pané, Fray Ramón (1999). "Chapter XIV". In Arrom, José Juan (ed.). An Account of the Antiquities of the Indians. Durham, NC: Duke University Press. p. 20. ISBN 0822382547.
  2. ^ Tejera, Emilio (1977). Indigenismos, Vol. II (in Spanish). Santo Domingo, Dominican Rep.: Editora de Santo Domingo. p. 1072.
  3. ^ Ortiz, Fernando (1952). Los instrumentos de la música afrocubana: Los tambores xilfónicos y los membranófonos abiertos, A a N (in Spanish). Havana, Cuba: Dirección de Cultura del Ministerio de Educación. p. 127.
  4. ^ a b Lewis, Martha Ellen (2008). The Concise Garland Encyclopedia of World Music, Volume 1. New York, NY: Routledge. p. 273. ISBN 9781136095627.
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