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The music of Peru is an amalgamation of sounds and styles drawing on Peru’s Andean Spanish and African roots. Andean influences can perhaps be best heard in wind instruments and the shape of the melodies while the African influences can be heard in the rhythm and percussion instruments and European influences can be heard in the harmonies and stringed instruments. Pre-Columbian Andean music was played on drums and wind instruments not unlike the European pipe and tabor tradition.
