INSTRUMENTS OF HUAYLLIPACHA

SOUND EFFECTS

HUAYLLIPACHA use a wider variety of percussion effects in the performances these are the instruments we use:

RAINSTICK or waterstick is a musical and ceremonial instrument used inmany communities from ancestral times to the present. Its name is descriptive of the sound of falling rain the instrument produces. Rainstick are made only from dead cacti, the toms of the cactus branch are pressed into the hollow shaft to form a spiral pattern. Filled with desert pebbles, the rainstick produces its characteristic sound when it is titled to allow the pebbles to run through its interior.
FROGS made of wood makes the sound of the frog we have a different sizes of frogs.
BIRDS made of wood and ceramic makes birds sounds.
BELLS made of metal.
ANDES CHIMES made of Goat hooves and seed.
WON and the CYMBALS.

RAINSTICK	FROGS	CHAKCHAS  & BIRDS EFFECTS
METAL CHIMES & ANDES CHIMES

 

STRING INSTRUMENTS

HUAYLLIPACHA has extended their repertoire of string musical instruments to include a:

THE CHARANGO is a ten-string instrument from Peru and Bolivia. This small hybrid instrument with a high pitched sound has four o more courses (or sets of string) and a sound box made from a flat wood front and a rounded back made from wood or armadillo shell, It's also called the QUIRQUINCHO (a quechua word for armadillo) and from the family of the charango we use the HUALAYCHO smaller than charango.
Charangos have been found made of Condor skin and the string made of animals tripe. The charango is played both in ritual ceremonies and other occasions. It's playing technique varies according to the type of music that is performed and the make-up of the musical band: whether soloists, duos (charango and guitar), trios (charango, mandolin and guitar) and typical folkloric bands, which feature seven or eight different instruments.

MANDOLINA is a 12-string instrument made of wood and armadillo too. Played all of Southern Peru.
THE GUITAR and THE VIOLIN.
BASS of five strings to provided the deep sounds that add rhythm to our melodies.
12 STRING GUITAR.

CHARANGO	QUIRQUINCHO ( FRONT )	QUIRQUINCHO ( BACK )
HUALAYCHO	MANDOLINA	VIOLIN
GUITARS	BASS	12 STRING GUITAR