Music Instruments in Lafayette

The region known as Louisiana's Cajun Country is renowned for its rich cultural soundtrack. One of the critical elements of this unique soundtrack is the instruments and the people who not only play them but make them. Without the accordion, fiddle, rubboard, and triangle, many of them created especially for the musical world of South Louisiana, the music would not exist.

Cajun & Creole Instruments: Accordion

Bellows-driven, vibrating reed squeezebox known as the accordion was first manufactured in Germany.

Cajun & Creole Instruments: Fiddle

A bowed string instrument, the fiddle is central to the sound, culture, and history of Cajun music.

Cajun & Creole Instruments: Frottoir

The frottoir is a percussive, rhythmic instrument present in Zydeco music and to a lesser extent, in Cajun music.

Cajun & Creole Instruments: Triangle

The triangle is a simple, percussive, rhythm instrument central to Cajun music.

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