El Güiro

The güiro is a vegetable percussion instrument associated primarily with indigenous musical tradition. Traditional güiros come from a dry, flattened, grooved gourd. It is a very simple musical instrument played by scraping the rough or grooved surface with a rod or raspa at greater or lesser speed to produce different sounds. Peñuelas is known as the güiro capital because the only güiro orchestra in Puerto Rico came from there. Traditionally, the Güiro Festival is celebrated there, including a troubadour competition started by Aníbal Alvarado Negrón.

Peñuelas, Puerto Rico · United States