Thursday, February 12, 2009

Merengue tipico









The instrument of choice for merengue tipico seems to be the Hohner Erica, a two-row diatonic button accordion, often seen in CG or GD tunings. It's fun and fast. This is traditional music from the Dominican Republic and is the oldest style of merengue still played today.

4 comments:

Candy Minx said...

Good stuff.

Barbara Bruederlin said...

Oooh that is fun music! Ole!

The Preacherman said...

My feet are still twitching

Gardenia said...

The Dominican Republic is or has flooding AGAIN - I had a chance to go - and will have a chance again - would be fun to hear this music live!!!