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Conga

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Word	Definition
congueronoun	A musician who plays the conga drum.
bongonoun	Either of a pair of small drums of Cuban origin, played by beating with the hands.
conga linenoun	A line of people dancing the conga.
tumbaonoun	(music) The basic rhythm played on the conga drum and the bass in Afro-Cuban music.
bongo drumnoun	(music) Synonym of bongo (“either of a pair of small drums of Cuban origin”).
candombenoun	(music) A musical style of Uruguay originating from African slaves.
batanoun	A ceremonial double-headed drum played in triplet in the religion of santería, especially in Cuba and Puerto Rico, originally from the Yoruba of Nigeria.
songonoun	A kind of contemporary Cuban music originating in Havana.
coanchanoun	A kind of bass drum played in Bolivia.
tamboranoun	A two-headed Dominican drum used in merengue music.
charanganoun	(uncountable, music) The genre of music they perform.
danzónnoun	(music) A Latin-American musical genre originating from Cuba, evolved from contradanza.
cantaronoun	(music) A clayen pot used as a percussion instrument in South America.
ganzánoun	A Brazilian cylindrical rattle used as a percussion instrument, especially in samba music.
gangannoun	(music) A talking drum of West Africa.
congonoun	A region of Central Africa, comprising the Democratic Republic of the Congo and the Republic of the Congo.
contradanzanoun	(music) A popular Cuban dance music genre of the 19th century, or a work composed in this genre.
agidanoun	A large drum used for ceremonial music in Surinam.
timbalesnoun	(music) A pair of tunable single-headed, metal-shelled cylindrical drums, used in Latin American music
barrel drumnoun	(music) A drum (membranophone) with a shape that bulges in the middle, forming a barrel-like appearance, usually very large and made of wood with a one-headed and open-bottomed body.