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What is a maraca?

What is a maraca? Here are some definitions.

Noun
  1. (music) A Latin American percussion instrument consisting of a hollow-gourd rattle containing pebbles or beans and often played in pairs, as a rhythm instrument.
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She had a guitar slung over her shoulder, and she opened a bag that contained a tambourine and a maraca.
One old lady in her 70s sits singing and strumming her guitar with a maraca, cataracts on both eyes, a few coins at her feet.
This English version was translated from the Spanish by Juan Cartagena and published in Guiro y Maraca magazine.
Many participants rattle the maraca, made from a tin or aluminum can with seeds inside.
Cherry Sue had been singing about babies, waving her bandaged fist like a maraca.
It's all over bar the kicking – Cave aims a well-shod foot at Warren Ellis, the Dickensian-hairstyled guitarist who seems to have got caught up in bashing a single maraca on a single cymbal.

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