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Paraguay

Paraguayan harp

The Paraguayan harp is a Paraguayan musical instrument. It was the result of the confluence of both European and Guarani musical cultures; and it derived from the classical angular harp, introduced during the Spanish colonization in the Guarani Jesuit missions. The priests of the Company of Jesus introduced this instrument in the area mentioned before at the end of the seventeenth century, and it was they, along with the Guarani, who modified the classical harp in such a way that it turned out to be a smaller instrument, built entirely of wood and with the addition of strings.

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