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  2. Galliane - Wikipedia

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    A Galliane is a bow frog for stringed instrument bows that sets the hair ribbon at an angle. [1] This kind of frog was first described in Scientific American in October 2012. It was invented by bow maker Benoît Rolland for violin, viola, cello, and double bass bows.

  3. Bow frog - Wikipedia

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    The bow frog is the end part of a stringed musical instrument's bow that encloses the mechanism responsible for tightening and holding the bow hair ribbon. Most of the bow frogs used in today's classical bows are made of ebony; some synthetic bows have frogs made with materials that imitate ebony, while Baroque bows use frogs made with various ...

  4. Ratchet (instrument) - Wikipedia

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    The raganella (Italian for "tree frog") is a percussion instrument common in the folk music of Calabria in southern Italy. Technically, the raganella is a "cog rattle", producing a sound that is enough of a "croak" to have derived the folk name of the instrument from the Italian name of the common tree-frog.

  5. Crotales - Wikipedia

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    Crotales (/ ˈ k r oʊ t ɑː l z /, / ˈ k r oʊ t ə l z / [1]), sometimes called antique cymbals, are percussion instruments consisting of small, tuned bronze or brass disks. Each is about 10 cm (4 in) in diameter with a flat top surface and a nipple on the base. They are commonly played by being struck with hard mallets.

  6. Kermit's Swamp Years - Wikipedia

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    The movie opens in the swamp lands that Kermit the Frog calls home. After meeting his old friend Horace D'Fly again, he recaps an adventure about his childhood where he enjoyed a serene amphibian's life with his two best friends, Croaker, a smooth and confident frog, and Goggles, a nervous and cowardly toad.

  7. Güiro - Wikipedia

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    The güiro was adapted from an instrument which might have originated in either South America or Africa. [1] The Aztecs produced an early cousin to the güiro, called the omitzicahuastli, which was created from a small bone with serrated notches and was played in the same manner as the güiro. [6]

  8. These are the rules if you want to hunt frogs legally in the ...

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    Gigging for frogs is probably practiced more in many southern states than in Ohio, where croakers might not be as enormous but where the legs are as tasty as those from any Mississippi bog frog ...

  9. Pungi - Wikipedia

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    The instrument has a high, thin tone and continuous low humming. [13] It has been an important instrument in Indian folk culture and is known by various names in different parts of India. In northern India, it is known as the been, tumbi, and bansi; in the southern India, it is known as the magudi, mahudi, pungi, and pambaattikulhal. [14]