LP Guiro with Scraper
date: label: Date made
content: 1999
name: label: maker
content: Latin Percussion
notes: label: Description (Brief)
content: <p>This guiro was made by Latin Percussion Inc. in Garfield, New Jersey, in 1999. It is large metal cylinder with a metal handle, and includes a plastic handled torpedo scraper.</p>
label: Description (Brief)
content: <p>As indicated in an LP brochure from the period, the “LP Merengue Guiro is one of the driving rhythmic forces in a merengue band. This large stainless-steel guiro features a hollow, open-ended design with a tightly textured surface that gives a raspy sound with bright overtones. The LP Merengue Guiro has a coarser, rougher sound than our large LP Torpedo and is significantly louder. The attached metal handle makes it easy to hold in any position.”</p>
place: label: place made
content: United States: New Jersey, Garfield
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content: Culture and the Arts: Musical Instruments
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content: Music & Musical Instruments
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content: Percussion
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: 2000.3039.01
label: catalog number
content: 2000.3039.01
label: nonaccession number
content: 2000.3039
objectType: label: Object Name
content: guiro
physicalDescription: label: Physical Description
content: metal (overall material)
label: Physical Description
content: plastic (overall material)
label: Measurements
content: overall: 32 cm x 13 cm x 11 cm; 12 5/8 in x 5 1/8 in x 4 5/16 in
label: Measurements
content: guiro: 4 5/16 in x 12 1/2 in x 5 1/2 in; 10.95375 cm x 31.75 cm x 13.97 cm
label: Measurements
content: scraper: 5/16 in x 2 1/4 in x 8 1/8 in; .79375 cm x 5.715 cm x 20.6375 cm