What do you call a dried calabash, gourd, or coconut shell filled with seeds or dried beans?

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Graham Mccarthy

Biology

23 May, 08:49

What do you call a dried calabash, gourd, or coconut shell filled with seeds or dried beans?

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Ivy Sullivan · Answer 1

They are typically played in pairs with one or more held in either or both hands. The percussion instruments, maracas, are dried gourds or balls of wood, clay or plastic, or sacs of leather, filled with seeds, frequently with one pitched higher than the other, and frequently with handles.