A Latin American percussion instrument made from a hollowed gourd with notches carved into its side, played by scraping a stick across the notches.
From Spanish 'guiro,' which comes from Taíno (Caribbean indigenous language). The instrument itself originated in the Caribbean and Central/South America before Spanish contact.
The guiro is a perfect example of how indigenous instruments survived colonization—the Spanish couldn't replace it because its sound was essential to Caribbean and Latin music, so they just borrowed the Taíno name and kept using it.
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