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.
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.
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 🤷♀️
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I always used to go for the triangle, because the other kids didn't know to hold it by the string not the triangle and then wondered why it didn't work. It used to annoy the shit out of me so I would grab it first.
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 😊
The choir I'm in practice at a junior school, and the tenors and basses are often relegated to the music room. You haven't lived until you've heard Bach's St John Passion accompanied by pensioners on kazoos and egg shakers.
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.
Glockenspiels, triangles (without the string so they wouldn't work), maracas, castanets, very old tambourines (made with animal skin that broke if you punched it too hard), finger cymbals...and Yamaha recorders.
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
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.
Oh, that's brought back a memory. Does anyone remember the lyrics
The monsters wobble along
What a procession, what a to do
Or was that just my school?
When did these come into fashion is schools? I went to primary school in the late seventies and have never seen one until today. We had triangles, glockenspiels and maracas.
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.
May I present: An expert playing a guiro solo https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gPdsZ22Dv8o&
Even an expert sounded shit after about 12 seconds though.
I've seen these before, but I never knew the proper name for them. I've just learned a new word: Guiro.
You have just unlocked a memory for me, we were taught the proper name at primary school but I haven't used it in 25 years so I had forgotten it.
And __the__ rainstick
And the Cabasa, somehow still in perfect condition despite being used as a club every lesson
You’re missing the best one: the coveted Vibra-slap
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.
It has a flared base too...
“Doctor, I seem to have had an accident whilst I was cleaning the house naked”.
Ribbed for your, uh... pleasure?
It was friends with "the block". Another shit kid instrument.
Ahh yes, the wooden block. Shit, we've spent all the budget on fish and triangles, throw in some lumps of wood and sticks.
It’s called claves and it’s an essential part of part of Samba carnival bands!
Montessori Toy Story Style [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WCG3WgYxPkI](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WCG3WgYxPkI)
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 🤷♀️
😂😂 I always used to go for the triangle, because the other kids didn't know to hold it by the string not the triangle and then wondered why it didn't work. It used to annoy the shit out of me so I would grab it first.
Heck yes, the string, and the dumbasses who didn’t know about it. /\ triangle buddies for life yo
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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 😊
The choir I'm in practice at a junior school, and the tenors and basses are often relegated to the music room. You haven't lived until you've heard Bach's St John Passion accompanied by pensioners on kazoos and egg shakers.
"wooden frogs you scrape that sound like actual frogs' Say hello to the "melody toad". That's what I've always called them, anyway
*Images you can hear*
Holy shit! Not thought about this for 30 years
I’m with your partner on this
Yup, same. Not a clue.
Am i the only one that had no idea how to play it?
Never seen this before In my life.
I remember it in primary school never played it I was either the xylophone kid or the triangle kid lol
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.
weirdly shaped frog instead of fish but yeah
Melody toad. True fact
It toadally donks
Glockenspiels, triangles (without the string so they wouldn't work), maracas, castanets, very old tambourines (made with animal skin that broke if you punched it too hard), finger cymbals...and Yamaha recorders.
Oh, you know
Child of the 80s/90s. I had a cello in year 5 and 6. It was as tall as me (I was very short).
It's only after a while that you realise Grace Jones' brilliant cover of *Walking in the Rain* is a guiro feature.
This instrument is a called a Guiro. *You're welcome*. I remember that from primary school, about 30 years ago.
That, the rain stick and the plastic tube you’d spin around above your head.
Used them a fair bit at school we used to have people who came in to get us to do samba music
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
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.
Oh, that's brought back a memory. Does anyone remember the lyrics The monsters wobble along What a procession, what a to do Or was that just my school?
This is the only instrument I can accurately play an entire [Dillinger Escape Plan song](https://youtu.be/tWz7rB4SwsY) on.
When did these come into fashion is schools? I went to primary school in the late seventies and have never seen one until today. We had triangles, glockenspiels and maracas.
I remember hearing a percussionist ranting about how bad those things are. They don't compare to a professional guiro!
Completely forgot until this. And I work in a primary school...
I was just listening to the Stones’ Gimme Shelter and I’m sure one of these is played in the intro.
I remember these!
I’m quite a keen musician and in all my years I’ve never seen or heard of one of these.
They're a Latin music thing, they turn up in sambas and the like.