List of Caribbean aerophones

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List of aerophones used in Caribbean music, including the islands of the Caribbean Sea, Guyana, Suriname, French Guiana, Belize, and Bermuda.

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| Drum = accordion

| Number = 4

| Tradition = Dominican Republic

| Type = Used in popular merengue, where it replaced the guitar.

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| Drum = accordion

| Number = 3

| Tradition = Belize

| Type = Used in Belizean Brukdown.

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| Drum = bois bourrique

| See = vaccine

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| Drum = botija{{cite journal|first=Harold|last=Courlander|journal=The Musical Quarterly|volume=28|title=Musical Instruments of Cuba|issue=2|date=April 1942|pages=227–240|doi=10.1093/mq/XXVIII.2.227}}Manuel, pg. 30

| Number = 4

| Tradition = Cuba

| Type = Empty jug, sometimes with a hole on the side, used in rural folk genres like son

| Other names = botijuela, bunga

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| Drum = botijuela

| See = botija

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| Drum = bugle{{cite journal|title=Carnival, Calypso, and Steelband in Trinidad|first=Ernest D.|last=Brown|journal=The Black Perspective in Music|volume=18|issue=1/2|year=1990|pages=81–100|doi=10.2307/1214859|jstor=1214859}}

| Number = 4

| Tradition = Trinidad and Tobago

| Type = Original source of the melody in steelpan

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| Drum = bunga

| See = botija

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| Drum = cayambouque

| Number = 4

| Tradition = Haiti

| Type = Cow horn, used for signalling

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| Drum = clarinetManuel, pg. 79

| Number = 4

| Tradition = Trinidad and Tobago

| Type = Used in traditional calypso

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| Drum = clarinet

| Number = 4

| Tradition = Trinidad and Tobago

| Type = Later addition to the tamboo bamboo ensembles

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| Drum = conchshell

| Number = 423.110

| Tradition = Garifuna music

| Type = Conch shell horn, used for signalling, traditional drumming.

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| Drum = cornet

| Number = 4

| Tradition = Trinidad and Tobago

| Type = Used in traditional calypso

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| Drum = fluteManuel, pg. 43

| Number = 4

| Tradition = Dominican Republic

| Type = Used to accompany upper-class merengue in the later 19th century

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| Drum = harmonium

| Number = 4

| Tradition = Indo-Caribbean

| Type = Used in chutney music

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| Drum = kartal{{cite journal|title=Brotherhood of the Boat: Musical Dialogues in a Caribbean Context|first=Tina K.|last=Ramnarine|journal=British Journal of Ethnomusicology|volume=7|year=1998|pages=1–22|doi=10.1080/09681229808567270|jstor=3060707}}

| Number = 4

| Tradition = Trinidad and Tobago

| Type = Harmonium, used in chutney

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| Drum = lambis

| Number = 423.11

| Tradition = Haiti

| Type = Conch shell horn, used for signalling

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| Drum = saxophone

| Number = 4

| Tradition = Garifuna music

| Type = Used in Garifuna Punta

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| Drum = saxophone

| Number = 4

| Tradition = Dominican Republic, Cuba,

| Type = Used in merengue, where it is the main instrumentation for the jaleo. Used in popular Cuban bands.

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| Drum = trumpet

| Number = 4

| Tradition = Cuba

| Type = Used in comparsa pre-Easter celebrations

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| Drum = trumpet

| Number = 4

| Tradition = Trinidad and Tobago

| Type = Later addition to the tamboo bamboo ensembles

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| Drum = trumpet{{cite journal|title=Embedded Truths: Creativity and Context in Spiritual Baptist Music|first=Stephen D.|last=Glazier|journal=Latin American Music Review|volume=18|issue=1|date=Spring–Summer 1997|pages=44–56|doi=10.2307/780325|publisher=University of Texas Press|jstor=780325}}

| Number = 4

| Tradition = Trinidad and Tobago

| Type = Used in the Spiritual Baptist musical tradition

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| Drum = vaccine{{cite journal|title=Musical Instruments of Haiti|first=Harold|last=Courlander|journal=The Musical Quarterly|volume=27|issue=3|date=July 1941|pages=371–383|doi=10.1093/mq/XXVII.3.371}}

| Number = 423

| Tradition = Haiti

| Type = Made of bamboo

| Other names = bois borrique

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| Drum = von-von

| Number = 412.22

| Tradition = Haiti

| Type = Bullroarer, used in Rara ceremonies

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