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um pau de chuva ou um reco reco

English translation: a rainstick or a scraper

03:51 Mar 18, 2011
Portuguese to English translations [PRO]
Music
Portuguese term or phrase: um pau de chuva ou um reco reco
um pau de chuva ou um reco reco para a participação no evento musical
Andre Damasceno
Brazil
Local time: 03:17
English translation:a rainstick or a scraper
Explanation:
guiro is also correct, but i'm not sure how many english speakers actually know what this is. however, pretty much everyone knows what a scraper is, as it's one of the first percussion instruments used in primary school...
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Juliet Attwater
United Kingdom
Local time: 07:17
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Summary of answers provided
4 +3a rainstick or a güiro
Martin Riordan
5 +1a rainstick or a scraper
Juliet Attwater
Summary of reference entries provided
reque-reque - take your pick Andre!
Nick Taylor

  

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4 hrs   confidence: Answerer confidence 4/5Answerer confidence 4/5 peer agreement (net): +3
a rainstick or a güiro


Explanation:
Dois instrumentos musicais com nomes estranhos!

Example sentence(s):
  • A rainstick is a long, hollow tube which is filled with small pebbles or beans and has small pins or thorns arranged helically on its inside surface.
  • The güiro is a Puerto Rican percussion instrument consisting of an open-ended, hollow gourd with parallel notches cut in one side.

    Reference: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rainstick
    Reference: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/G%C3%BCiro
Martin Riordan
Brazil
Local time: 03:17
Native speaker of: Native in EnglishEnglish
PRO pts in category: 4

Peer comments on this answer (and responses from the answerer)
agree  Verginia Ophof
35 mins
  -> Obrigado!
agree  Marlene Curtis
3 hrs
  -> Obrigado!
agree  Nick Taylor: on second thoughts, make the great unwashed use their brains for a change! As they are waiting to cash their Giro they can play the güiro, accent and all, be damned!
5 hrs
  -> I don´t know about that! There are London accents, Yorkshire accents, West Country, BBC... ;-) But now the asker has options!... Thank you for that reconsideration. Lét´s educate people to new global standards!
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6 hrs   confidence: Answerer confidence 5/5 peer agreement (net): +1
a rainstick or a scraper


Explanation:
guiro is also correct, but i'm not sure how many english speakers actually know what this is. however, pretty much everyone knows what a scraper is, as it's one of the first percussion instruments used in primary school...

Juliet Attwater
United Kingdom
Local time: 07:17
Specializes in field
Native speaker of: Native in EnglishEnglish
PRO pts in category: 4

Peer comments on this answer (and responses from the answerer)
agree  Carlos Quandt: http://www.britannica.com/EBchecked/topic/529803/scraper
4 hrs
  -> thank you :)
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Reference comments


11 hrs peer agreement (net): +1
Reference: reque-reque - take your pick Andre!

Reference information:
http://www.lpmusic.com/Play_Like_A_Pro/Tech_Support/guiro-ba...

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Note added at 11 hrs (2011-03-18 15:16:01 GMT)
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no "Acordo Ortográfico" in the "Instrumentos Musicais Populares Portugueses" by the authority Ernesto Veiga de Oliveira! Reque-Reque! So onomatopoeic!

Nick Taylor
Native speaker of: Native in EnglishEnglish
PRO pts in category: 28

Peer comments on this reference comment (and responses from the reference poster)
agree  Lais Leite: a rainstick or a 'reque-reque' in Portuguese, a scraper in English in English
2 hrs
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