help me name this wooden percussion inst

Subject: RE: help me name this wooden percussion inst
From: GUEST,Lavengro
Date: 22 Mar 13 - 03:25 PM

@Raggyarse

Why put effort into commenting if you are not even going to try and help someone making a sincere request?

Any musician who has a cheap shot at someone based on what instrument that person plays rather than the skill they bring to playing it needs to take a look in the mirror. Clearly whatever instrument you play is further up your own imaginary instrument hierarchy. Good for you. I hope you get similar help when you ask for it next.

Subject: RE: help me name this wooden percussion inst
From: Marc Bernier
Date: 22 Mar 13 - 08:01 AM

@ Dead Horse; To most average white Americans, Cajun and Zydeco are the samething.

Subject: RE: help me name this wooden percussion inst
From: GUEST,Raggytash
Date: 22 Mar 13 - 07:55 AM

Kindling ?

Subject: RE: help me name this wooden percussion inst
From: GUEST
Date: 22 Mar 13 - 07:48 AM

Go to Google images and enter the word guiro

Subject: RE: help me name this wooden percussion inst
From: GUEST,Lavengro
Date: 22 Mar 13 - 06:42 AM

@Roger the Skiffler

You ought to invest in one of those zydeco washboard ties as your travelling instrument? Spiffy too :)

Subject: RE: help me name this wooden percussion inst
From: Dead Horse
Date: 22 Mar 13 - 06:34 AM

The washboard is not used in any cajun music that I have heard. You must mean zydeco.

Subject: RE: help me name this wooden percussion inst
From: Roger the Skiffler
Date: 22 Mar 13 - 06:33 AM

I've got one too for when I can't take the Washboard of Mass Destruction (eg to Greece). It is indeed a guiro.

RtS

Subject: RE: help me name this wooden percussion inst
From: Manitas_at_home
Date: 22 Mar 13 - 04:13 AM

I used to have one of these and it was, indeed, a guiro. I believe it was supposed to symbolise a fish.

Subject: RE: help me name this wooden percussion inst
From: GUEST
Date: 21 Mar 13 - 10:00 PM

I think that might be it! Maybe one of the bamboo versions. Thanks!

Subject: RE: help me name this wooden percussion inst
From: GUEST,Nobody
Date: 21 Mar 13 - 09:50 PM

Guiro shaker?

Subject: help me name this wooden percussion inst
From: GUEST,Susan-Marie minus my cookie
Date: 21 Mar 13 - 09:42 PM

A few years ago I bought a small wooden percussion instrument that I need to replace, but I don't know what it's called.

It was about 9 inches long, a hollow wooden tube with ridges cut into its outer surface. I slid a wooden stick across the ridges to produce a sound like a small washboard (I used it in Cajun music).

I've found carved wooden toads and crickets but their sound isn't as much like a washboard.

Thoughts?