for decades now, the sound of the morros - the hills above the city  - has been rolling down to the clubs and dancehalls of copacabana and leblon and then out into the world - samba, bossa nova, and recent international favorite baile funk, have all come from here, and the sounds of local favorites choro and pagode dominate the landscape of popular music nationwide.

the idea of using what is on hand to get a desired result runs even through the instruments with which the music of rio is played.