# What is the most typical instrument of flamenco music?

Question 4007 · Task 4 · Culture and history of Spain · CCSE 2026

**In Spanish, as in the exam:** ¿Cuál es el instrumento más característico de la música flamenca?

- a) La gaita. (The bagpipe (gaita).)
- b) La guitarra. (The guitar.) · Right answer
- c) El piano. (The piano.)

**Right answer:** b) La guitarra.

## Why

The Spanish guitar is the main instrument of flamenco. It goes with the singing and the dancing, together with hand clapping (palmas) and the cajón (box drum). The gaita (bagpipe) is typical of the traditional music of Galicia and Asturias.

Question 4007 of the Manual de preparación de la prueba CCSE 2026 © Instituto Cervantes: https://cervantes.org/sites/public/produccion/files/2026-10/manual-preparacion-prueba-ccse-2026.pdf

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