Agogo bells, Clays, shakers, Caixa, Cucia ,Tambourim, Chokalho, Timba, Apito and Surdo
Stringed, percussion, brass, and wind instruments are used to produce Samba music.
No samba is not an instrument. It is a style of Brazilian music and dance. Samba is also the name of a computer language.
Some traditional instruments are guitars, violins, horns, and bass. Mariachis are Mexican bands that play the traditional instruments. The Samba originated from a Afro- Brazillian couples dance and the Bossa nova evolved from the Samba but it has less precussion. Most of the instruments used in latin American music is based on percussion e.g the surdo which is known as the heart of the samba.
pandeiro, cuica, agogô, repique, bumbo - these are percussion instruments. There is a melodical instruments, like cavaquinho and violão. but there is a lot of kind of samba! samba-enredo, samba de raiz, sambão...
The two primary musical families used in samba are percussion and melodic instruments. The percussion family includes instruments like the surdo, tamborim, and agogô, which create the distinctive rhythms of samba. Melodic instruments, such as the cavaquinho and guitar, provide harmonic support and melodies that complement the rhythm. Together, these families create the lively and vibrant sound characteristic of samba music.
The main features of samba are Sudo,dancers,performers, percussion instruments,and beat.
drums
samba is used for the background music of carnivals the carnivals express what brazil is like
Samba instruments come from the Perrcussian family.
Samba used to be played on just stringed instruments, but when the Americans went to Brazil during the 2nd World War, they brought with them Percussion instruments, and since them, Samba has always been played with percussion instruments.
Samba music was never called 'samba de roda'. Roda means 'circle formed by people', and it was more commonly used in capoeira, during the slavery. Samba de Roda is something under the influence of capoeira and samba, samba is the dance (as you may guess), but it's done in a roda with characteristic instruments of capoeira and Brazilian culture: Berimbau, Pandeiro, Atabaque etc. So, Samba de Roda has its own music with its own type and own characteristics and different from its original.
The traditional samba drum pattern used in Brazilian music is called the "batucada."