The recent archeological discoveries of musical instruments have allowed confirming than in the Peru music remounts at least to some 6 000 years of antique.

Of that long tradition Indian flutes, panpipes, the pututos proceed ( trumpets of external parts of a woman's genitals marinas ) and one they used a great variety of instruments of wind in whose manufacturing materials like cane, clay, bone, horns and precious metals, as well as various percussion instruments.

The contact with Occident allowed incorporating great quantity of instruments, the same than they have been creatively adapted to the rhythmical and tonal needs of every region of the Country. The most evident samples are the numerous characteristic transformations of the harp, the violin and the guitar in the Peruvian saw.

The encounter of the Andean and what's occidental has given origin in the Peru in addition to 1 300 kinds musical. Two of them, however, have passed over the regional space and have become converted in the Peruvian identity's symbols: The huayno and the sailor. Compound for a mixture of joy and nostalgia, the huayno is today in host day of the creation of new musical rhythms contemporaries, thanks to your musical simple and flexible structure. The sailor, for your part, a kind is not womb like the huayno, but has variants clearly told apart in her coast and in the saw, and thanks to your musical beauty and splendid choreography has been enough a great diffusion in the whole national space.

The African immigrant's festive force has contributed also to enrich the musical pile,
Because you are creative of the drawer and you impressed a musical use like instrument to donkey's jaw of percussion.

At the jungle's region exists also one a great variety of rhythms, dances and instruments linked with parties and rituals like the manguaré's use ( tubular trunk ), call " drum semiotic " because it serves to communicate messages to long distance in between the jungle.

As of the present moment, continue the understanding of new instruments – like synthesizers, electric guitars, batteries and harmonicas – and the creation of new textiles like the cumbia dance andean and maize liquor, that they allow that the Peruvian music be permeable to new influences, extending oneself toward national and international boundaries, beyond the lot reserved to it vernacular.

This capacity for fusion and musical express invention briskly the integrative force and the expeditious character of the Peruvian culture.