guiro
Musical equipment; Percussion instruments
Instrument consisting usually of a gourd with a serrated surface, which produces a rasping sound. It is played by scraping the carved ridges with the tines of a special pick or ...
guiro
Musical equipment; Percussion instruments
Traditional guiros were made from the gourd of the higüero tree, also known as the calabash tree. Small parallel notches were carved on the skin of the dried fruit. The sound ...