Percussion: shakers and blowers

THE ORCHESTRA: A USER'S MANUAL

Introduction	Orchestration	Orchestration	Resources	Historical	Andrew Hugill
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PERCUSSION

Pitched Metal
Pitched Skin
Pitched Wood

Unpitched Metal
Unpitched Skin
Unpitched Wood

Shakers and Blowers
Other Effects
All about beaters

Player's Tips and Tricks

Shakers and Blowers

NAME	DESCRIPTION	BEATERS	LISTEN/VIEW	COMMENTS
cabasa	controllable shaker made of metal beads around a central pod with turning handle and serrated edge	Hand	cabasa pattern single shake	Latin American instrument.
shakers	miscellaneous containers filled with shakeable objects	Hand	shakers strawberry lemon banana	Fruit-shaped shakers are common and offer a good range of timbres.
sheeps' toenails	toenails of sheep in bunches, shaken	Hand	sheeps' toenails pattern single shake	!!!!
'swanee' whistle	a whistle with a moveable slider	Hand and mouth	'swanee' whistle down up up and down	The standard sound is a glissando, either up or down, or a wide vibrato. Individual pitches are theoretically possible (although very difficult) between A4 and C7.
train whistle	blown imitation of locomotive whistle	Mouth	train whistle toot-toot tooooot toot	Sounds a tritone, and can be played with a deviation in pitch (characteristic of trains) or as a single sustained chord.