Andean music is just what you think it is: pan-pipes, guitars, simple drumming, bad singing and the odd wooden flute type thing. In the streets during the build up to the festival this is added to sometimes with a pair of trumpets and euphoniums and maybe a cymballist. The music is very simple, highly repetitive, full of the more than odd wrong notes but enjoyably intoxicating. In the restaraunts however are all the good musicians. They get tipped by playing well, so they have to. One night we were going round all the restaraunts just asking if they could do us a jug of warm wine at a good price, eventually we found one after naming our own price. We were pleased to find a few minutes later that they had live music scheduled too.
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