Guiros Percussion Instruments Wooden Frog 3 Piece Set of 4 Inch, 3 Inch, 2.75 Inch, Wooden Frog Musical Instrument (Brown/Black/Natural Color)

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Clarke, Edwin; O'Malley, Charles Donald, The Human Brain and Spinal Cord: a historical study illustrated by writings from antiquity to the twentieth century, Norman Publishing, 1996 ISBN 0930405250. Fiberglass and wooden guiros are made by many percussion makers to be more durable when playing guiro instrument, while maintaining a smooth sound that’s closer to the original. While not as popular with traditional Latin percussionists, they are used in many Western popular and orchestral music pieces. The frog galvanoscope, and other experiments with frogs, played a part in the dispute between Galvani and Alessandro Volta over the nature of electricity. The instrument is extremely sensitive and continued to be used well into the nineteenth century, even after electromechanical meters came into use. Fun Fact: There are other gourd-based percussion instruments, which include the shekere. What Kind of Music Is the Guiro Used For?

Solís, Ted (1995). "Jíbaro Image and the Ecology of Hawai'i Puerto Rican Musical Instruments". Latin American Music Review / Revista de Música Latinoamericana. 16 (2): 123–153. doi: 10.2307/780370. JSTOR 780370.

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Wasserman, Mark (2012). The Mexican Revolution: A Brief History With Documents. Boston: Bedford/St.Martin's. pp.11, 12, 63, 69, 112, 121. Hare, Robert, "Of galvanism, or voltaic electricity", A Brief Exposition of the Science of Mechanical Electricity, Philadelphia: J. G. Auner, 1840 OCLC 8205588. The traditional guiro is only a hollowed gourd with notches on the side. Its design makes it difficult for players to hold and get a firm grip for consistent scrapping. Because of these limitations, the modern guiro has ridges on the surfaces and provision for holes where players can give it a firm grip. On the other hand, modern guiros are made of fiberglass, wood, bamboo, plastics, or metal. These materials are more durable and have consistent sounds than traditional guiros. Newer versions of guiro don’t rely on scrapping but on fillings or shakings to produce sound. This is one mean snappy crocodile, stunningly carved, and works well as an ornament! Whilst the one in the photo is natural wood, it does also come in green and is just as snappy! 2. Croaking Frog

Matteucci used the frog galvanoscope to study the relationship of electricity to muscles, including in freshly amputated human limbs. Matteucci concluded from his measurements that there was an electric current continually flowing from the interior, to the exterior of all muscles. [14] Matteucci's idea was widely accepted by his contemporaries, but this is no longer believed and his results are now explained in terms of injury potential. [15] Construction [ edit ] Karl Peinkofer and Fritz Tannigel, Handbook of Percussion Instruments (Mainz, Germany: Schott, 1976), 154.

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When the frog's leg is connected to a circuit with an electric potential, the muscles will contract and the leg will twitch briefly. It will twitch again when the circuit is broken. [16] The instrument is capable of detecting extremely small voltages, and could far surpass other instruments available in the first half of the nineteenth century, including the electromagnetic galvanometer and the gold-leaf electroscope. For this reason, it remained popular long after other instruments became available. The galvanometer was made possible in 1820 by the discovery by Hans Christian Ørsted that electric currents would deflect a compass needle, and the gold-leaf electroscope was even earlier ( Abraham Bennet, 1786). [19] Yet Golding Bird could still write in 1848 that "the irritable muscles of a frog's legs were no less than 56,000 times more delicate a test of electricity than the most sensitive condensing electrometer." [20] The word condenser used by Bird here means a coil, so named by Johann Poggendorff by analogy with Volta's term for a capacitor. [2] The güiro, like the maracas, is often played by a singer. It is closely related to the Cuban guayo, Dominican güira, and Haitian graj which are made of metal. Other instruments similar to the güiro are the Colombian guacharaca, the Brazilian reco-reco, the quijada (cow jawbone) and the frottoir (French) or fwotwa (French Creole) ( washboard). [1] Etymology [ edit ]The first step in playing the guiro is knowing how to hold the instrument properly. If you have one with two holes, you can hold it in two different ways:

The vossa-satl, also known as the frog-pipes, [1] are a musical instrument of Argonian make found predominately in Murkmire. It resembles a polished wooden clam shell with a series of valves along the top; within each segment of the shell is a small, hollow compartment with a mouth like a bugle. It takes much patience to keep a vossa-satl in tune. Especially if the frogs are in mating season. Please excuse me." ― Chelni [src]Synonyms for this device include galvanoscopic frog, frog's leg galvanoscope, frog galvanometer, rheoscopic frog, and frog electroscope. The device is properly called a galvanoscope rather than galvanometer since the latter implies accurate measurement whereas a galvanoscope only gives an indication. [2] In modern usage a galvanometer is a sensitive laboratory instrument for measuring current, not voltage. Everyday current meters for use in the field are called ammeters. [3] A similar distinction can be made between electroscopes, electrometers, and voltmeters for voltage measurements. Sue Steward (1 October 1999). Musica!: The Rhythm of Latin America - Salsa, Rumba, Merengue, and More. Chronicle Books. pp.6–. ISBN 978-0-8118-2566-5 . Retrieved 16 April 2013. In the Arawakan language, a language of the indigenous people of Latin America and spread throughout the Caribbean spoken by groups such as the Taíno, güiro referred to fruit of the güira and an instrument made from fruit of the güira. [2] Construction and design [ edit ] An alternative version of the story of the frog response at a distance has the frogs being prepared for a soup on the same table as a running electric machine. Galvani's wife notices the frog twitch when an assistant accidentally touches a nerve and reports the phenomenon to her husband. [9] This story originates with Jean-Louis Alibert and, according to Piccolino and Bresadola, was probably invented by him. [10]