Similar Instruments
The Siddi of India, who are the descendants of East African immigrants, play a similar instrument called the malunga.
The Chamoru of Guam also play a similar instrument called belembao or belembaotuyan. The similarity in the names "berimbau" and "belembao" is intriguing as no acknowledged link between the Pacific society and Brazil, although it is most likely that knowledge of the African-derived berimbau was transported to Guam via Spanish colonial trade (Guam having once been under Spanish imperial influence).
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