{"id":8788,"date":"2014-05-01T08:30:40","date_gmt":"2014-05-01T13:30:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.fertur-travel.com\/blog\/?p=8788"},"modified":"2015-09-23T18:23:36","modified_gmt":"2015-09-23T23:23:36","slug":"hidden-treasures-in-plain-sight-in-lima-manuel-pariachi","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.fertur-travel.com\/blog\/2014\/hidden-treasures-in-plain-sight-in-lima-manuel-pariachi\/8788\/","title":{"rendered":"Hidden treasures in plain sight in Lima: Manuel Pariachi"},"content":{"rendered":"

Strolling through downtown Lima in the afternoon, the din of traffic was drown out by a piercing melody and alluring rhythm from a finger picked steel string guitar.<\/p>\n

It was live music, but sounded so much like a 1920s phonograph, I could have been listening to a folk song\u00a0 captured by Alan Lomax on an Edison recorder.<\/p>\n

\"Exploring<\/a>Sitting on a low, aluminum folding stool was\u00a0 72-year street musician, Manuel Pariachi. His chin was pressed against the guitar, which he sang into like a microphone. It was a microphone, he explained. A salvaged telephone handset mouthpiece was mounted inside the guitar cavity with screws and a piece of bent wire.<\/p>\n

A squiggle of wire protruded through a hole on the top side of the instrument, which Pariachi sang into. two white wires ran from another puncture in the back of the guitar, just below the neck, to a makeshift amplifier consisting of a single plastic speaker. That was powered by a motorbike battery inside a tattered backpack.<\/p>\n

\"Improvised<\/p>\n

The speaker looked like it had been manufactured sometime in the 1990s, given its design; It clearly had been cheaply produced and was obviously resurrected from a junk heap.<\/p>\n

\"Street<\/p>\n

A plastic collection cup hung with more wire from the guitar’s sound hole. I put a few soles into the cup and stood listening.<\/p>\n

Pariachi said the song was from his central Andean homeland, Huancayo. He migrated to Lima 40 years ago, but said he was, and always would be “Huanca\u00adno”\u00a0 in his heart.<\/p>\n

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