| LC control no. | sh 98005987 |
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| Topical heading | Guiro |
| Variant(s) | Calabazo (Musical instrument) Guayo Guiro (Scraper) Ralladera (Musical instrument) Rascador (Musical instrument) |
| See also | Musical instruments--Caribbean Area Musical instruments--Latin America Percussion instruments Reco-reco (Musical instrument) |
| Found in | Work cat.: 98187539: Ortiz, F. El guayo o la ralladera, la quijada, c1995: p. 6 (in Cuba the terms "guayo," "güiro," and "calabazo" are generally used to refer to the same instrument) p. 9 (a dried, peduncular gourd with parallel incisions across its width over which a scraper is passed to produce sound; in eastern Cuba, this is also called a ralladera (often confused with the metal instrument called the rallo)) New Grove dict. of musical instruments (guayo: metal scraper of Cuba and the Dominican Republic; in Cuba it has been largely replaced by the gourd scraper, also known as guayo (or güiro); a cow horn incised with marks may also be used as a guayo; güiro: scraper of the Caribbean, Panama, and South America; in Cuba it is also known as guayo or rascador; also applied to the atcheré, a large rattle with external strikers) Web. 3 (guiro, pl. guiro, (AmerSp güiro), a percussion instrument of Latin American origin made of a serrated gourd and played by scraping a stick along its surface) |
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