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Sophisticated musical instruments are all well and good, but four pieces of wood and four pieces of metal provide everything you need to play a rumba, explains the esteemed singer and songwriter Alberto Zayas towards the end of his journey into Cuban musical history. Still, that doesn’t stop the stylish Zayas—checkered shirt, ever-present cigar—from energetically explaining where the traditional instruments originated and how they developed, with the help of some delightful musical interludes.