Güiro
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The güiro is a percussion instrument consisting of an open-ended, hollow gourd with parallel notches cut in one side. It is played by rubbing a stick or tines along the notches to produce a zipper-lik
Puerto Rican güiro on display in the Musical Instrument Museum of Phoenix
Cuban güiro
Puerto Rican güiro or güícharo
Brazilian reco-reco
Reco-reco
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The reco-reco is a scraper of African origin used as a percussion instrument in Brazilian music, but also in many Latin American countries, where it is known as güiro, güira, guayo and guacharaca.
Güiro
…guayo, Dominican güira, and Haitian graj which are made of metal. Other instruments similar to the güiro are the Colombian guacharaca, the Brazilian reco-reco, the Cabo Verdean ferrinho, the quijada (cow jawbone) and the frottoir (French) or fwotwa (French Creole) (washboard). In the Arawakan language, a…
Reco-reco made of metal.
Traditional reco-reco and pandeiro