I just mentioned this to my partner and he had no idea what I was talking about and had never seen it before.
I thought it was one of those things everyone had in the box of instruments at primary school along with the triangle, tambourine, and jingle bells. Anyone else out there never seen this before?
by SorbetNo7877
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I’ve seen these before, but I never knew the proper name for them. I’ve just learned a new word: Guiro.
I remember these!
There is only one way to play the guiro, and it sounds like “GWOOOOOIIIIIIK, KIK-KIK, GWOOOOOIIIIIIK, KIK-KIK”.
And primary schoolers could insert that into literally any song they were assigned to play.
It has a flared base too…
It’s only after a while that you realise Grace Jones’ brilliant cover of *Walking in the Rain* is a guiro feature.
Am i the only one that had no idea how to play it?
And __the__ rainstick
One of these would always be in the box of assorted random instruments, next to the 30 different boomwhackers and a glockenspiel with half the keys missing… good times.
Holy shit! Not thought about this for 30 years
*Images you can hear*
I’m with your partner on this
It was friends with “the block”. Another shit kid instrument.
That, the rain stick and the plastic tube you’d spin around above your head.
I remember it in primary school never played it I was either the xylophone kid or the triangle kid lol
I’m quite a keen musician and in all my years I’ve never seen or heard of one of these.
I just showed this to my Irish husband (musician!) and he had no idea what it was, uncultured swine. No soup for him.
Do you remember the tube that you’d turn upside down and it’d go *BBBOOOWWWUPPP*? I NEVER got to play with that thing, I was too shy to ask for it and it there was always a waiting list of “me next, then you, then her” I’m like hand me the triangle I guess 🙄 I used to love the percussion instruments. One class got ocarinas one day and I was so mad jelly with my dumb recorder. I could still bang out “colours of day” or “lord of the dance” now though so, not all bad I guess 🤷♀️
Used them a fair bit at school we used to have people who came in to get us to do samba music
The Guiro! I’m a Primary school music teacher and can confirm I have lots of these in my classroom of different sizes. Other popular instruments with the kids are Boomwhackers, big colourful tubes you hit to make a sound and these wooden frogs you scrape that sound like actual frogs. They’re wonderful 😊
This instrument is a called a Guiro. *You’re welcome*.
I remember that from primary school, about 30 years ago.
The great thing about percussion toys is that almost anyone can play them. Only a few kids have musical talents so these noisemakers allowed everyone to join in.
We had these, we had wooden blocks with bottle caps, we had lots of cool drums but only lame things to hit them with, we had that weird wooden instrument with metal ball chain around it, I could go on
weirdly shaped frog instead of fish but yeah
Never seen this before In my life.
I used to think ‘agogo’ was a funny word
Which meant ‘double agogo’ meant it was twice as funny
Anyone else have a music man come once every year. Guy had a Jew’s Harp (instrument that goes in your mouth and makes twangy noises) and wooden Train Whistles.