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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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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.
The high-frequency sounds of the maraca have been used by American Indian shamans for healing and by Tibetan lamas to uplift the soul.
Cherry Sue had been singing about babies, waving her bandaged fist like a maraca.
Maraca that is not matured is split during drying and at this stage can be prepared to serve in the production of chair seats or mats.
Many participants rattle the maraca, made from a tin or aluminum can with seeds inside.
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.

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