gourd piano

The güiro (Spanish pronunciation: [ˈɡwiɾo]) is a percussion instrument consisting of an open-ended, hollow gourd with parallel notches cut in one side. It is played by rubbing a stick or tines (see photo) along the notches to produce a ratchet sound.

Hulusi The Hulusi 葫蘆絲 (Húlu sī) is a Chinese wind instrument made of a gourd and bamboo. It has been described as sounding like "Chinese bagpipes". Like bagpipes, the Hulusi has drones, but unlike the bagpipe these drones can be opened and closed.

kora, long-necked harp lute of the Malinke people of western Africa. The instrument's body is composed of a long hardwood neck that passes through a calabash gourd resonator, itself covered by a leather soundboard. Twenty-one leather or nylon strings are attached to the top of the neck with leather tuning rings.

The musical instruments: been, tumba, and khanjiri, used by Kalbelia people are made of dried gourd.

Gourd instruments generally fall into one class – the sheng. These are free-reed mouth organs, much on the order of a harmonica, but which also have bamboo pipes coming out of a central chamber. This chamber used to be made from a gourd or a hardwood, but now are more often made of metal.

The kora is built from gourd, cut in half and covered with cow skin to make a resonator with a long hardwood neck. The skin is supported by two handles that run underneath it. It has 21 strings, each of which plays a different note. These strings are supported by a notched, double free-standing bridge.

From ancient times, the bottle gourd has been a symbol of happiness or success as they were associated with divinities in the earliest of semi-mythical chronicles. The gourd was also the battle ensign of one of Japan's samurai heroes, Hideyoshi Toyotomi (1537-1598).

In Daoism, the shape of the gourd represents the sky and the earth, the infinite, the universe, a magical world, a parallel universe, or an entry into another world, where immortals or persons practicing Daoism can travel to – signifying self-content and sufficiency.

noun. ko·​ra ˈkȯr-ə : a 21-stringed African musical instrument resembling a lute.

The instrument is said to be the most complex string instrument. A native of The Gambia, Africa, the Kora is a harp/lute-like instrument with a huge spherical gourd resonator that sits in the lap of the cross-legged player, a neck that sticks straight up.

A güiro is a hollowed cylindrical tube most often made of gourd but also wood, metal or plastic is also used It is provided with ridges that are rubbed with a stick or comb. It was common to both the Caribbean and Sub-Saharan Africa providing a rhythmic pulse for different types of Latin-American and Africa music.

What is a Kalimba? A Kalimba or Mbira (or finger harp, gourd piano, and many other names) is a small, trapezoid-shaped, handheld instrument from the lamellophone family. It is made up of a sound box and metal tines mounted across two wooden bridges.