Percussion/Cobra Bell question

[Cooperman]

Anyone familiar with Ozzy Osbourne's song "Crazy Train"??? At the begining there is this 'clicky' percussion thing that kinda sounds like a rattlesnake... I was talking to a drummer I know he said he didn't know the proper name for it but he knows them by the name of "Cobra Bell" - does anyone know if this the proper name of it and if so let me know so I can try and track down a sound sample of it off the net... alternatively if someones got a spare few minutes and has one of these "Cobra Bells" could they record a sample of it and email it me...

Cheers

[Emeric]

I'm familiar with it, but I'm not sure what the percussion instrument is. Maybe just a shaker or something? No it's more than that.. I can't remember the song clearly, I do remember spending hours and hours learning the solo though.

I found a cobra bell here:

http://www.abaxion.com/t3mg.htm

$19.99 what a rip-off, you can get them here:

http://www.abra-cadabra.net/06-008.html

For only $7.95!!

Call now.

Sorry, that wasn't much help.

[Cooperman]

Thanks for trying Emeric... anybody else got any ideas??

[memo]

I went and downloaded that song, and what you hear in the beginning is a:

Guiro

It's a fairly large wooden block with teeths on it, when you run a stick down it's body, it produces that krrrrrrrrrrr sound. It's mainly used for percussion in latin music (for examples, Santana's backup singers always have one in their hands)

Go check out LP music's web site, they have sound samples too:
http://www.lpmusic.com/Product_Showc...per_guiro.html

[Tim Brown]

Originally posted by memo
I went and downloaded that song, and what you hear in the beginning is a:

Guiro

It's a fairly large wooden block with teeths on it, when you run a stick down it's body, it produces that krrrrrrrrrrr sound. It's mainly used for percussion in latin music (for examples, Santana's backup singers always have one in their hands)

Go check out LP music's web site, they have sound samples too:
http://www.lpmusic.com/Product_Showc...per_guiro.html

Nope, It's not a Guiro, what you're looking for is called a "Vibra Slap".
You can get them for under $30.

Here's what it looks like.
http://www.lpmusic.com/old%20website...aslaps_II.html
Tim