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Abeng
Well supported
The cow-horn trumpet the Maroons used to carry signals across the hills — a coded instrument as much as a musical one, able to send messages British forces could not read. It is still blown at Accompong, and it is one of the oldest continuously used instruments in Jamaica.
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