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The tinya (Quechua)1 or kirki (Quechua)1 is a percussion instrument, a small handmade drum of leather which is used in the traditional music of the Andean region, particularly Peru. The drum dates to the pre-Columbian era,2 and is used in traditional Peruvian dances, notably in Los Danzantes de Levanto where it is played by one person simultaneously with the antara, a type of panflute; that instrument combination is similar to the worldwide tradition of the pipe and tabor.
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Musician plays Pinkullo flute with one hand and drums a tinya with the other at a Huari Danza in Peru.
References
References
- Diccionario Quechua - Español - Quechua, Academía Mayor de la Lengua Quechua, Gobierno Regional Cusco, Cusco 2005 (Quechua-Spanish dictionary)
- Dale Olsen, Music of El Dorado, pp. 17–22.