Chirimia
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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).
Chirimía (sometimes chirisuya in Peru[1]) 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.[2]