Cabasa
The cabasa, cabassa, cabaza or afuché is a rhythmic musical instrument made of waved wood.
Their name comes from the fact that they were originally made with pumpkin (in Portuguese, cabaça), like the güiro and the maracas.
The metal cabasa was created by M. Cohen of the Latin Percussion Company. It is used in Latin jazz, especially in the bossa nova genre.
In recent years, he has gained a lot of ground within reggae and pop music.
Features
The cabasa is built with rings of steel balls in the form of chains, which wrap around a thick cylinder. It is a hollow and closed body. Inside, there are metallic rattles that, when the instrument is shaken in the air or struck by hand, collide with each other or with the wall of the cabaza and produce sound. The cylinder is attached to a long, thin handlebar made of wood or plastic or metal.