today a choro ensemble includes five to six players who play a variety of instruments which can include violas, flutes, clarinets, obies, trompones and saxophones - standard to all groups is the bandolim (brazilian mandolin), cavaquinho (small guitar-like instrument similar to the ukulele) guitars (one or more six-string guitars and a seven-string guitar) and the pandeiro (tambourine-like hand drum).

here is a list of places one can visit on a thursday in search for choro.