Cabasa
A controllable shaker made of metal beads around a central pod with turning handle and serrated edge. Beaters: Hand.
Latin American instrument.
Cabasas:
Pattern
Single shake
Shakers
Miscellaneous containers filled with shakeable objects.
Beaters: Scraper.
Fruit-shaped shakers are common and offer a good range of timbres.
Shakers:
Strawberry
Lemon
Banana
Sheeps' Toenails
Toenails of sheep in bunches, shaken
Beater:
Hands.
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Sheeps' Toenails:
Pattern
Single shake
'Swanee' Whistle
A whistle with a moveable slider.
Beater: Hand and mouth.
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.
Swanee whistle:
Down
Up
Up and down
Train Whistle
Blown imitation of locomotive whistle.
Beaters: Mouth.
Sounds a tritone, and can be played with a deviation in pitch (characteristic of trains) or as a single sustained chord.
Train whistle:
toot-toot
tooooot
toot