Chirimia

Chirimía (sometimes chirisuya in Peru) is a Spanish term for a type of woodwind instrument similar to an oboe. The chirimía is a member of the shawm family of double-reed instruments, introduced to North, Central and South America in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries by the Spanish clergy.

This article is about the primitive oboe. For the fipple flute played with a drum, see Tabor pipe. For the Afro-Colombian musical genre, see Chirimia (musical genre).
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