Rainsticks are traditionally made of cactus but can be found made with different materials including plastic. There is a series of toothpick like spines inside the cactus that criss cross, throughout the length of the rainstick causing the enclosed pebbles to bounce when rotated, giving off a rainlike sound effect.
A common term for a type of tubular rattle that mimics the sound of rainfall; a primitive musical instrument in which sound is produced by the movement of particles (sand, stones etc.) through a hollow tube with an internal matrix that is closed at each end. Click here for an animated presentation.
Purportedly invented by Chilean native Indians in order to attempt to bring rain to the dry desert regions of Chile. The rainstick makes a sound similar to the sound of falling rain. Rainsticks can be make of many things including bamboo and PCV piping. However, the traditional rainstick is made of ocotillo cactus.
is an ancient instrument originally made of a dried cactus stalk with the spines shoved inside and filled with a handful of pebbles or sea shells. When tipped, the pebbles slowly bounce and fall through the spines creating a watery sound.
A rainstick is a long, hollow tube which is filled with small baubles such as beads or beans and has small pins arranged helically on its inside surface. When the stick is upended, the beads fall to the other end of the tube, making a sound reminiscent of a rainstorm as they bounce off the pins. The rainstick is generally used to create atmospheric sound effects or as a percussion instrument.