guiron.

1898 E. H. Hawley in Amer. Anthropologist 11 344 An instrument of this class which has seemed to be confined to the West Indies..is called the guira, and is made of a gourd varying in size in different instruments... In the hand of a native guira player a wonderful rhythmic sound comes from this dried..shell.

1914 F. Morris Catal. Crosby Brown Coll. Mus. Instr. II. ii. 183 In..Cuba the maruga..is rubbed with pieces of wire. The guiro, still another form, is made of a long-necked gourd with lines cut in the surface while the gourd is still green. The scraper is a small stick.

1934 S. R. Nelson All about Jazz vii. 166 The Guiro is a native vegetable which is scraped with a fork of two prongs, or, alternatively, struck with a pair of xylophone sticks.

1944 W. Apel Harvard Dict. Music 566/2 Primitive instruments such as..the guiro (a serrated gourd scraped with a stick), have been used by Prokofiev..and Stravinsky.

1961 A. C. Baines Musical Instruments through Ages i. 27 Scrapers have survived into modern times, for instance in the folk music of Venezuela, where the guiro or charrasca is made from a bull's horn, or in the rumba bands of Cuba and the fashionable Western world which use a scraping gourd, also known as guiro.

1966 Crescendo Dec. 27/1 The rest of the front-line thump tambourines, click claves, scratch guiros or shake maraccas.