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  2. Cabasa - Wikipedia

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    Cabasa. The cabasa, similar to the shekere, is a percussion instrument that is constructed with loops of steel ball chain wrapped around a wooden cylinder. The cylinder is fixed to a long, wooden or plastic handle. The metal cabasa was created by Martin Cohen, founder of Latin Percussion. This company has built a more durable cabasa that they ...

  3. Castanets - Wikipedia

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    Castanets. Castanets, also known as clackers or palillos, are a percussion instrument (idiophone), used in Spanish, Calé, Moorish, [1] Ottoman, Italian, Mexican, Sephardic, Portuguese, Brazilian and Swiss music. In ancient Greece and ancient Rome there was a similar instrument called the crotalum. The instrument consists of a pair of concave ...

  4. Percussion instrument - Wikipedia

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    Orchestral percussion section with timpani, unpitched auxiliary percussion and pitched tubular bells Djembé and balafon played by Susu people of Guinea Concussion idiophones (), and struck drums Modern Japanese taiko percussion ensemble Very large drum kit played by Terry Bozzio Mridangam, an Indian percussion instrument, played by T. S. Nandakumar Evelyn Glennie is a percussion soloist

  5. Shekere - Wikipedia

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    Shekere. The shekere (from Yoruba Ṣẹ̀kẹ̀rẹ̀) [1] is a percussion instrument consisting of a dried gourd with beads or cowries woven into a net covering the gourd. There are multiple ways to produce sounds with the instrument. It can be shaken or hit against the hand. The instrument can also rest in the palm of one hand while other ...

  6. Waiting on a Friend - Wikipedia

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    Side two. "Worried About You". "Tops". "Heaven". "No Use in Crying". "Waiting on a Friend". " Waiting on a Friend " is a song by the English rock band the Rolling Stones from their 1981 album Tattoo You. Written by Mick Jagger and Keith Richards and released as the album's second single, it reached No. 13 on the Billboard Hot 100 singles chart ...

  7. List of percussion instruments - Wikipedia

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    There are lots of tuned percussion instruments. Among the most common are the xylophone, marimba, the glockenspiel, the cowbells and the temple blocks. Other authorities cited here however say that temple blocks are not considered pitched instruments. ^ "Marching machine". Virginia Tech Multimedia Music Dictionary.

  8. ID Cabasa - Wikipedia

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    ID CABASA was born Olumide Ogunade in Lagos, Nigeria, on 29 July 1975, he was the third child in a family of four, he started making music by the side as a teenager and a student in St Finbarrs college Akoka back in the late 80s in Afrodicia Record Studio formerly known as Peca, the studio that produced legendary artistes like the late Fela Anikulapo-Kuti, Ebenezer Obey, King Sunny Ade, Sir ...

  9. Jawbone (instrument) - Wikipedia

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    The quijada, charrasca, or jawbone (in English) is an idiophone percussion instrument made from the jawbone of a donkey, horse, mule, or cattle, producing a powerful buzzing sound. [1] The jawbone is cleaned of tissue and dried to make the teeth loose and act as a rattle. It is used in music in most of Latin America, including Mexico, Peru, El ...