Instrument classifications (IMAGE)
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Aerophones are the most common instrument class in South America, making up almost half of the musical instruments in the proposed classification. Chordophones were not present in the Indigenous musical history of the Americas, as they have been introduced after the contact with the Europeans.
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Aguirre-Fernández et al., 2021
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