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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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Anyone who likes Latino music should hear this album for its conga, maraca and trumpet songs alone.
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.
The high-frequency sounds of the maraca have been used by American Indian shamans for healing and by Tibetan lamas to uplift the soul.
She had a guitar slung over her shoulder, and she opened a bag that contained a tambourine and a maraca.
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.

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