Rhythm
Instruments defined by what they are made of. A crate, a dried gourd, a small body strung high — each of them the most available object on which a sound could be cut.
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Section 05 of 06
Section 05 of 06
Entries in Rhythm
Instruments, and what they are made of.- 018 The box that became a drumCajón · Lima, Peru A shipping crate played as a drum because drums were banned, and how the instrument was refined once it stopped needing to be disguised.
- 019 Gourd and scraperGüiro · The Caribbean basin A dried gourd with notches cut across it — the whole instrument is the surface.
- 020 Strings in miniatureSmall high-tuned lute · The Andes Small high-tuned string instruments built to sit above a guitar rather than replace it.