What's the name of this instrument?

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Alright, I need to know the name of a hand-percussive type instument here . . .


It's the thing that sounds like a rattle snake. It sort of has this handle dealy on it . . . kind of looks like a telegraph with a wooden ball on the end of it. You hit it against your knee or hit the ball and it sounds like . . . well . . . a rattle snake.

kkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkghhhhhh . . . .

Anyone know what it's called?

Come on, now.
 
Gah! You beat me too it! I was just checking out that it was called what I thought it was! :)
Vibro-slap, vibraslap or (it seems) monkey jaw! :)
 
That's what Paul Revere and the Raiders used on the song, Cherokee Nation.

If you can remember that far back?

Pier.
 
Pier Calacino said:
That's what Paul Revere and the Raiders used on the song, Cherokee Nation.

If you can remember that far back?

Pier.
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Owwwwwwww!

That jarred a few brain cells.
 
yup, vibroslap

it's also featured quite prominently on rush's studio cut of Closer to the Heart.


wade
 
Also called "Jawbone of the Ass" or "Donkey Jawbone" or "The Mule's Jawbone". You get the idea....
 
how about on Ozzy's

Crazy train? Or am i thinking about the wrong instrument?
 
Thanks for the help guys.

Yea, that was crazy train, Wireneck.
 
Yup its a vibraslap. Original was called Mule's jawbone, because that's what it was made of. Then of course they were manufactured with plastic that looked like a jawbobe. Then LP (latin Percussion Inc.) made the current vibraslaps,with metal and plastic.They even make wooden ones that are not as loud but have a different texture of sound. They make another one that is made of metal that is really high pitched.

They's cool eh?

T
 
I wonder what these sound like

ribit ribit?LOL
Frog guiros???????
 
Funny you posted those Tonio....I had a friend come up to me and ask me what they were, hers was made of wood and the little stick that rubbed down the "spiny" frogs back was stored in his mouth.

She played it for me and I said "I think it's a guiro, but I havn't seen one exactly like that before.

It gave off a sound that could almost be described as the chirp that some small frogs give off (at least where I grew up they kinda sounded like that). After hearing it I told her it was appropriate that they made it in the shape of a frog. She got it from a little stand at a flea market. I have looked for them offhand when at music shops and the like but have never seen them again.
 
"The creative flair of Afro-Peruvians turned the lower jawbone of a donkey or horse into an effective percussion instrument.

It is held in one hand and hit with the other to keep the beat.

The unique sound of the "quijada" (Jawbone) is produced by the rattling molars in the jawbone and amplified by the bone structure."

I saw some dude whip one of these out at a peruvian concert (Susana Baca) and it sounded pretty damn cool.
 
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