Key facts
- Instrument.name
- Chilean Rainstick
- Instrument.image
- Rainstick.ogg
- Instrument.image_capt
- sound of a rainstick
- Instrument.classification
- percussion instrument
- Instrument.hornbostel_sachs
- 112.13+133.1
- Instrument.hornbostel_sachs_desc
- vessel rattle with friction
- Instrument.inventors
- Multiple possible origins: best known is the Mapuche design; similar instruments in Southeast Asia, Africa and Australia
- Instrument.related
- Hosho, Maracas, Vibraslap
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thumb|300x300px|Traditional cactus rainsticks
A rainstick is a long, hollow tube of bamboo or dried cactus that is partially flooded with small pebbles, rice, dried beans, or other hard granular matter. The inside surface of the tube has small pins or thorns arranged helically. When the stick is rotated and held upright, the pebbles fall to the other end of the tube, bouncing off the internal protrusions to create a sound reminiscent of falling rain.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “rainstick” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.