Talk:Güiro

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can any one name songs with a guiro playing?

A composition rather than a song, but The Rite of Spring by Igor Stravinsky employs one. —The preceding unsigned comment was added by Livedevilslivedevil (talk • contribs) 10:42, 20 February 2007 (UTC).

You will hear good guiro playing in almost any song by Los Van Van or NG La Banda. They have a full-time guirero for those bands. It is a very important part for those Cuban bands.

Probably the "definitive" guiro song is Oye Como Va but I would suggest a Tito Puente original version rather than Santana. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 206.81.166.225 (talk) 16:01, 7 September 2010 (UTC)

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Frog vs. Toad - just a note, the Guiro in the picture is actually a toad. Toads have parotid glands (the bumps visible behind the eyes), frogs do not.

All I Wanna Do/Sheryl Crow

David Bowie, "The Man Who Sold the World" has it playing throughout. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 184.166.20.139 (talk) 03:02, 3 November 2015 (UTC)

Merge rationale

The güiro and güira are very similar instruments, derived from the same base, therefore it does not make sense to have two separate articles. Kakofonous (talk) 17:18, 19 February 2008 (UTC)

I must respectfully disagree. Yes, they are both Latin-American percussion instruments, played in a similar manner, but they are constructed quite differently, have distinctive sounds, and tend to be used with differing musical traditions. Can most people tell a viola from a violin? They are, in my opinion, considerably more similar than are the güira and güiro, but have individual articles. The same can be said for many other groups of similar musical instruments. Wikipedia has over 30 articles on individual types of drums, many of which differ less than do the güira and güiro. Tim Ross·^talk 11:35, 20 February 2008 (UTC)

I agree with Tim insofar as they are different instruments, so different pages.69.17.15.223 (talk) 05:25, 6 April 2008 (UTC)

I also agree, the articles in my opinion ought to remain separate. Philip.t.day (talk) 16:16, 26 May 2008 (UTC)

Being a guirero (I play both kinds), I also have to agree. You'd never see the guira in Cuban son music, and you'd never see a guiro in a Dominican bachata ensemble. If I can, I'd like to remove the tag. DubCrazy (talk) 03:48, 19 August 2008 (UTC)DubCrazy

There seems to be a reasonable consensus to keep the two articles separate. I will delete the tags. Tim Ross (talk) 11:36, 19 August 2008 (UTC)

Removing "Works that use the instrument"

I am removing the lengthy list of songs which utilise the Guiro. I understand that the instrument is somewhat uncommon in western music; however, no other instrument pages (that I have seen) includes such a list. Some of the entries, if they can be sourced, may be interesting if incorporated into the body of the articles (such as the classical compositions). However, in its current form, the list is inconsistent with wikipedia's formatting and entirely unsourced. Jellocube27 (talk) —Preceding undated comment was added at 19:18, 22 January 2009 (UTC).

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Diaeresis in wrong place

This applies both to the article on the Güiro and the Güira - I note that the diaeresis is consistently shown over the 'u', not the 'i'. Two dots over the 'u' would produce the German 'ü' (ʏ sometimes written 'ue'). A diaeresis splits two vowels, which would normally be sounded as a diphthong, or in this case, shows that the 'u' is to be sounded separately, as in Spanish 'gu' before an 'i' or 'e' normally just sounds like a hard 'g'. At some point IMO someone should go through these two articles converting 'üi' to 'uï', and replacing the older articles with Redirects. Comments? Jpaulm (talk) 15:04, 6 August 2016 (UTC)