Pua vs Guiro - What's the difference?
pua | guiro |
A musical instrument made of a hollow gourd with parallel notches cut in one side, and played by rubbing a stick or scraper ("pua") along the notches to produce a ratchet-like sound.
* 2006 , Thomas Pynchon, Against the Day , Vintage 2007, p. 721:
As nouns the difference between pua and guiro
is that pua is a scraper or stick used to play a guiro while guiro is a musical instrument made of a hollow gourd with parallel notches cut in one side, and played by rubbing a stick or scraper ("pua") along the notches to produce a ratchet-like sound.As an initialism PUA
is pickup artist.guiro
English
(wikipedia guiro)Noun
(en noun)- The house band consisted of gigantic guitars, fiddles, trumpets, and accordion, with rhythms provided by a batería including timbales, guiros , and congas.