Mayohuacan
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A Mayohuacan was a medal drum played by the indigenous Taíno
people of the Caribbean
. The instrument was played for songs that were performed during weddings. The drum was made of a thin wood and was shaped like an elongated gourd that measured up to one meter long and half a meter wide. According to early accounts of the Taíno The sound produced by the mayohuacan could be heard as far as a "league and a half away" (a league being a distance between 5.3 to 7.9 miles, or 7965 to 11268 meters). These were played by leaders of the tribe as accompaniment to songs which were used to pass on customs and laws to younger generations.
Taíno people
The Taínos were pre-Columbian inhabitants of the Bahamas, Greater Antilles, and the northern Lesser Antilles. It is thought that the seafaring Taínos are relatives of the Arawak people of South America...
people of the Caribbean
Caribbean
The Caribbean is a crescent-shaped group of islands more than 2,000 miles long separating the Gulf of Mexico and the Caribbean Sea, to the west and south, from the Atlantic Ocean, to the east and north...
. The instrument was played for songs that were performed during weddings. The drum was made of a thin wood and was shaped like an elongated gourd that measured up to one meter long and half a meter wide. According to early accounts of the Taíno The sound produced by the mayohuacan could be heard as far as a "league and a half away" (a league being a distance between 5.3 to 7.9 miles, or 7965 to 11268 meters). These were played by leaders of the tribe as accompaniment to songs which were used to pass on customs and laws to younger generations.