Just when I thought that the buy outs are over, my husband came back with another item to pursue. He said this instrument is not rare to find because very few musicians uses this especially here in our region because very few people place jazz here. Then he pointed to the guiro. That’s right, very few people in our area play the guiro because most of the musical artists here play alternative music, hip hop, rock, rhythm ‘n blues, ballads, gospel, and the like.
A guiro is a percussion instrument that’s somewhat originated from Latin America. This instrument creates a unique and distinct sound when scrapped. Scraping the stick across the grooves in the guiro creates a chain of excellent clicking noises that merge together, depending upon the music and tempo, movement can be up or down across the grooves, and fast or slow. People used to associate this musical instrument to jazz or other Latin, Hispanic music.
A guiro can actually be used in any other music genre. Music after all depends on the musician’s creativity. In fact is I may remember guiro was also used by the band R.E.M on one of their albums. Some other Alternative music band incorporates the use of guiro in their music. But yes I usually hear this instrument in Latin America dance such as salsa, mambo, and the like. Well yeah I said we can get one or two of that as an addition to the music studio instruments. Looking forward to that jazz like effect.