A chirimía is a type of oboe, a double reed instrument. It is a member of the shawm family of double-reed instruments, introduced to Central and South America in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries by the Spanish clergy.
Four musicians in an ensemble including, from left, a violinist, a violinist, a man with a small vihuela, and a man with a large vihuela. A man and a boy kneel in front of the ensemble. They are grouped in front of an adobe building with a tile roof.
Two farmhouses of farm buildings separated by a low wattle fence, with a mountain in the background, in the Costa region of the state of Michoacán de Ocampo.