Skip to main content

Link to Smithsonian homepage

Smithsonian Music

Main menu

  • Calendar
  • Listen
  • Learn
    • Ask Smithsonian
    • Collections Spotlights
    • Music Stories
  • Watch
  • Blog
Latino Music Collections Highlights

Musical Instruments

View a sample of the Latino and Latin American instruments in the Smithsonian's collection. 

  • Latino Music Collections Highlights
  • Latino Musicians
  • Musical Instruments
  • Videos
  • Vazquez Cuatro
  • Pandereta
  • Cuatro
  • Tiple
  • Güiro Pick
  • Maracas
  • Flute
  • Marímbula
  • Puyero de Güiro
  • Barril de Bomba
  • Maracas
  • Güiro
  • Timbales, used by Tito Puente
  • Bellini "Lord Wilton" Violin
  • Hohner Corona II Accordion signed by Flaco Jimenez
  • Fruman Nickel Violin
  • Gonzales Flamenco Guitar
  • Violin and bow with sun designs
  • Flute in the form of a monster
  • Guitar
  • Rattle
  • Whistle figure of a woman
  • Trumpet
  • Hand drum
  • Rattle
  • Shaman's drum
  • Rattle
  • Flute
  • Trumpet
  • Cuatlalpanec-style globular drum
  • Drum and drumstick
  • Drum and drumstick
  • Rattle in the form of an animal
  • Female-figure rattle
  • Flute depicting a man wearing a headdress
  • Drum
  • Bomba Drum
  • Bell
  • Drum and drumstick
  • Violin and bow
  • Panpipes
  • Whistle in the form of a land snail
  • Flute
  • Pandereta
  • Tiple

Link to Smithsonian homepage

  • About
  • Terms of Use
  • Privacy
  • YouTube
  • Twitter
Back to Top