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charanga

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cha·ran·ga  (ch-rängg)
n.
A style of popular Cuban dance music characterized by the use of violins and flutes along with percussion instruments, piano, bass, and vocals.
[American Spanish, short for charanga (francesa), French band, from Spanish charanga, irregular popular orchestra, probably of imitative origin.]
charanga [ˌtʃæˈræŋgə]
n
(Music, other) a type of orchestra used in performing traditional Cuban music
[Spanish]
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So there is the guiro and the timbales, and it makes an orchestra like white rice and black beans -- you know, it's a Cuban saying -- and this is the basis of charanga, the lineup that normally plays the danzon.
OUR MEN IN HABANA by The Santa Fe New Mexican (Santa Fe, NM)
I loved making music and got my first guitar when I was 13, along the way I've picked up 10 other guitars, a banjo, a ukulele, two trumpets, a banjolele, a mandolin, an autoharp, a charanga, two pianos, a tenor guitar, a triangle and even made myself some coconuts (made strangely enough, from a coconut).
Band Ade; Jade Wright meets the comic turned folk star by Liverpool Echo (Liverpool, England)
My friends in Cuba call me "El Charanguero Gozador", which means that I am a big fan of Charanga Habanera, a Cuban Salsa band.
All about me... 'I can't live without music and dancing' by South Wales Echo (Cardiff, Wales)
 
 
 
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