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Percussion Plus Honestly Made Gourd guiro and shaker

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  • Crafted in Peru using traditional materials and methods
  • Projects a full and powerful tone due to the resonant chamber of the gourd
  • Fabulous hand painted decorations
  • 35cm - size and shape varies slightly
  • Supplied with scraper
  • Responsibly sourced
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Introducing the Percussion Plus Honestly Made Gourd guiro and shaker

Fashioned from a hollowed-out gourd, this large guiro creates a rich and powerful tone when scraped along its ridges. The large interior of the gourd acts as a resonating chamber, allowing the sound to project much further than a stand guiro scraper.

To play, use the turned wooden stick provided to scrape along the ridges on top of the gourd. Speed up and slow down your movements to vary tone your tone and intensity of sound. There are also beads inside the gourd to further layer your percussive tone.

This guiro and shaker is sourced using Fair trade principles. See below for more information about the Honestly Made range of musical instruments from Percussion Plus.

These items are musical instruments not toys and there may be small parts on or in some of them. Younger players should use them under supervision.



Traditional design

The gourd has been hand decorated with highly detailed and intricate traditional designs, making every instrument entirely unique. They are finished with a small woven band attached at the base of the instrument to easily hang for storage.



Made from natural materials

The gourd is a large fleshy fruit, grown naturally in Peru and has many domestic and musical uses for thousands of years. This guiro and shaker is made by drying and hollowing out the gourd, adding beads and ridges then finishing with decorations and a woven band by hand.



Our sustainable packaging

A key principle of Honestly Made is sustainability, and we’ve modified our packaging of these items accordingly. Many products are simply labelled with a recyclable cardboard tag and shipped exactly as we received them, but for cases where extra packaging is required, we have also adopted fully recyclable and biodegradable glassine paper bags.

Naturally, we don’t want to waste our pre-existing packaging material, meaning you might still receive some of these products in classic, non-glassine packaging. If so, rest assured that your order has contributed to our collective waste management mission.




Percussion Plus Honestly Made products are manufactured in independent family workshops that are too small to join Fair Trade groups or are located in countries that do not have such organisations. These suppliers and their subsidiaries all follow Fair trade principles which include:

  • Agreeing a fair price Use of recycled materials
  • Paying significant amounts upfront
  • Being loyal and reasonable in all dealings
  • Prioritising smaller suppliers over large factories
  • Manufacturing methods that do not damage the environment