Music around the World
Good times everywhere are even better with music. But the sound of music can be different from place to place. Why? Because orchestras and bands of musicians in different parts of the world play different kinds of instruments.
For example, in North America and Western Europe, many people like big orchestras or bands with brass instruments. Also, many young people listen to rock groups with electric guitars and synthesizers.
In Mexico, people of all ages enjoy mariachi bands with non-electric guitars and accordions – keyboard instruments that you squeeze to make sounds.
Further south in Ecuador and Peru, Inca musicians play various traditional instruments such as panpipes and marimbas.
In China, musical groups play bells, drums, gongs, flutes, and stringed instruments called the quin and the pipa.
In Japan, special musical groups called gagaku also play bells, drums, gongs, flutes, and their own kinds of ancient stringed instruments.
In Indonesia, the popular gamelan orchestra includes many instruments that are played by striking them with sticks and hammers.
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