Gourd musical instruments

Guiro definition: A Latin American percussion instrument made of a hollow gourd with a grooved or serrated surface, played by scraping with a stick or rod.

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Making Music from Gourds (Originally published June 5, 2008 in the Santa Cruz Sentinel) When I attended my college choir reunion in Redlands last month, I had to admit to those who asked, that I hadn’t been singing much in the last 32 years. Since college, I’ve focused much more on visual art than music. While in Southern California, I also took a side trip to the Museum of Neon Art in Los Angeles. One modern piece sizzled and buzzed loudly and intermittently in a corner of the museum…

Full: Front Musical instrument made of gourd, reed. © The Trustees of the British Museum

Gourd Musical Instruments - Elwha River Gourd Art

Step by step display on creating a simple gourd ukulele. This and other gourd instruments will be displayed & performed at the Harvest Festival -October 12 at Arlington Arts Center Gourd Uke making "Funkaleles" and photos by Doug Retzler

Jason Romero handmade gourd ukulele

Gourd Banjo These gourd banjos are so awesome! They have that old time folk sound I love.

Musical Gourd.

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GOURD Historically, ethnic groups in many countries have used a great number of musical instruments made from gourds. In North America these instruments are used mainly by percussionists. GOURDS are used by people throughout the world for musical instruments, including shakers, maracas, drums, horns, marimbas and various string gourds resembling a banjo.

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Free tutorial on making a simple pueblo style gourd drum. Learn how to work with rawhide to create your own gourd drum.

Shallow hemispherical body of wood with sound table of snakeskin with one small circular soundhole at proper right side. Center of back covered by small square (130 x 130 mm) of animal skin, pierced around perimeter by strands of twisted plant fiber radiating to edge of body in alternating bands of black and red. Two wood arms pierce sound table and support wood yoke at upper end. Attached to ends of yoke are strands of cowrie shells and large tufts of black and gray monkey hair.

A type of mouth organ, now obsolete, with ten bamboo pipes set in a long-necked gourd. It was once used in Burmese chamber music.