History of Flamenco - Spanish Essay Flamenco music began with a voice and some clapping, and later the guitar was incorporated. It was only during this century that zapateo was introduced. Today, the three main tools of flamenco are singing, guitar and dancing. Almost all styles of flamenco or palos can be performed with or without dancing, there are sinante dances and purely vocal singing, "a cappela". Today, flamenco has many faces and is interpreted in many ways. In modern flamenco, the use of certain instruments is important. more common, such as the electric bass, normally fretless (at the time Carlos Benavent started using it) and the cajon. The cajon is a Peruvian percussion instrument which, with slight modifications, was introduced by Paco deLucía and his group, and consists of a wooden box with a removable front panel that is played sitting on top and is very well adapted to flamenco because it does not have specific tuning and offers a sound without very dry harmonics, a label with which young groups less concerned with purism and more interested in mixing music, integrates saxophones, flutes , cellos, violins or the sitar. , and countless percussion instruments like bongos, South American congas, Indian darbouka and djembe, etc. Less common is the use of drums, synthesizers and electric guitars. Flamenco is one of the most distinctive and recognizable musics in Europe. The roots of flamenco were formed by bringing together influences from very diverse origins: in this music we can find contributions from Hindus, Arabs, Jews, Greeks, Castilians, etc. How the contributions of so many cultures came to blend into flamenco is a long and interesting story full of legends and misinterpretations. The Gypsies of southern Spain created this music day after day from their own music.