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What is a guiro?

What is a guiro? Here are some definitions.

Noun
  1. Synonym of sekere
  2. (music) A musical instrument, a shaker, made of a hollow gourd with parallel notches cut in one side, and played by rubbing a stick or scraper ("pua") along the notches to produce a ratchet-like sound.
  3. (music) A genre of traditional Cuban music, used in santería rituals.
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This English version was translated from the Spanish by Juan Cartagena and published in Guiro y Maraca magazine.
Chinchiv musicians combine with Peruvian cajon, guiro, jawbone, bongos, conga, Andean violin and guitar.
Then there were one or two battered tambourines for those of us who might later on in life decide to join the Salvation Army, and there was a guiro too.
It then simmers down into a spacy section featuring the gongs before the other instruments rejoin with a guiro for the climax.

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