Rainstick

The Rainmaker (or rain stick, Rainmaker, Rainstick ) is an effect instrument which is about 25 to 150 centimeters in length and about 4 to 10 inches in diameter measures.

Origin

He is originally from the north of Chile. Its origin is the very dry Atacama area where the rainmaker was first built by the Indians in Diaguitas Elquital and used for rain ceremonies.

Method of construction

The Rainmaker is made from the " Copado Cactus ". It only dead cacti are used which are already lignified. The thorns are driven into the interior of the cactus. Then the rainmaker is filled with small pebbles and capped at both ends.

Modern versions of the instrument be made from bamboo or plastic and filled with rattle bodies made ​​of different materials to achieve various sound effects.

Sound

If one turns now to the rainmaker, drop the pebbles of a sting to the next. This creates a pleasant, even sound that is reminiscent of flowing water or to the noise of thick raindrops. While in South America, the medicine men wanted to entice with the quiet rushing sound of the rain -maker the longed-for rain, one enjoys the pleasant sound with the calming effect.

The sound spectrum ranges from fine delicate drizzle to the mighty noise of a downpour. It " raining" the more enduring, the longer the rainmaker and stop the more spikes the path of pebbles. Short variants are also used as quickly shaking rhythm instruments.

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