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An Indian in the Peruvian Altiplano plays the zampoña with an enraptured expression, the sounds of which (perhaps a yaraví or triste?) are able to convey all the melancholy of the vastness and loneliness. - Chuquibambilla, Puno - 1976

Charangito player from Kenko in the department of Cuzco, Peru. Stringed instruments seem to have been unknown to the pre-Columbian civilizations. The original charango is a small guitar with a resonance box made from armadillo armour. The rather high-pitched sound is produced on five or six pairs of strings. - 1976