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guiro

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gui·ro  (gwr, gwîr)
n. pl. gui·ros
A Latin American percussion instrument made of a hollow gourd with a grooved or serrated surface, played by scraping with a stick or rod.
[American Spanish güiro, from Taino.]
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So there is the guiro and the timbales, and it makes an orchestra like white rice and black beans -- you know, it's a Cuban saying -- and this is the basis of charanga, the lineup that normally plays the danzon.
OUR MEN IN HABANA by The Santa Fe New Mexican (Santa Fe, NM)
Cabrera recalls: "Los Cuentos negros se publicaron en Francia por casualidad: Un dia hablando con Miomandre sobre una calabaza negra que yo habia comprado en el 'Marche aux puces'--me gustaba mucho et arte negro, es decir, me atraian las artes exoticas--estabamos conversando como decia, acerca de la calabaza y otra pieza que tambien habia comprado, un guiro.
Creating Ethnography: Zora Neale Hurston and Lydia Cabrera by Hoffman-Jeep, Lynda / African American Review
Perhaps that explains the decidedly giddy tenor of the Philharmonic's concerts Friday and Saturday, conducted by music director Esa-Pekka Salonen, that featured not just the organ but also a percussion battery that included plumber's pipes and a guiro (anyone know what that is?
PIANOS, ORGAN AND THE MIGHTY PHIL by Daily News (Los Angeles, CA)
 
 
 
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