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Charanga

Charanga is a type of Cuban dance music popular in the 1940s and consisting of heavily son influenced material performed on European instruments such as violin and flute by a Charanga orchestra. Charanga orchestras play lighter and faster versions of the danzón without a brass section and emphasising flutes, violins, and piano.

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