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A maraca ( , , ), sometimes called shaker or chac-chac, is a rattle which appears in many genres of Caribbean and Latin music. It is shaken by a handle and usually played as part of a pair. A maraca player in the Spanish language is called a .
Key facts
- Instrument.name
- Maraca
- Instrument.image
- Maracas.jpg
- Instrument.background
- percussion
- Instrument.classification
- Percussion
- Instrument.hornbostel_sachs
- 112.1
- Instrument.hornbostel_sachs_desc
- Shaken idiophones or rattles
- Instrument.related
- Shekere
- Instrument.musicians
- Machito, Monguito
- Instrument.builders
- LP Percussion
- Instrument.sound sample
- File:Maracas.ogg
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A maraca ( , , ), sometimes called shaker or chac-chac, is a rattle which appears in many genres of Caribbean and Latin music. It is shaken by a handle and usually played as part of a pair. A maraca player in the Spanish language is called a .
== Etymology == The term maraca is believed to originate from the Guarani word . Other authors, for their part, believe that it is a corruption of the Arabic-origin word mitraqah, used in African countries with a dual meaning of bell and hammer. However, some authors have questioned the Arabic origin, since mitraqah apparently derives from the Spanish word matraca.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “maraca” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.