Vaccine (instrument)

Vaksin[1][2][3] (or vaksen, vaccine[4][5]), a simple tube bamboo trumpet blown by a musician.
Vaksin (cylinders in rear-left) and Konè (flared horns in center-front), exhibited at the Musical Instrument Museum (Phoenix)

Vaccine[4][5] (or sometimes vaksin[1][2][3]) are rudimentary single-note trumpets found in Haiti and, to a lesser extent, the Dominican Republic[6] as well as Jamaica.[3] They consist of a simple tube, usually bamboo, with a mouthpiece at one end.

They are thus also referred to as banbou[7] or bambú,[6] as well as bois bourrique[4] (or bwa bourik[8]), granboe,[9] fututo,[6] or boom pipe.[3] They are not to be confused with other Haitian handmade trumpets called konè or klewon, made of a yard-long white metal tube with a flared horn, called kata.[1][2][3]

Vaccine players are known as banboulyès.[6]

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