A rainstick is a long, hollow tube which is filled with small pebbles or beans and has small pins or thorns arranged helically on its inside surface. When the stick is upended, the pebbles fall to the other end of the tube, making a sound reminiscent of a rainstorm as they bounce off the pins. They have become very popular in the last 200 years, and is often sold to tourists.
The rainstick is believed to have been invented in Chile, and was played in the belief that it could bring about rainstorms. Rainsticks are usually made from any of several species of cactus. The cactus, which have hollows, are dried by the sun. The spines are removed, and driven back into the cactus, like nails. Pebbles or other small objects are placed inside the rainstick, and the ends are sealed off. A sound like falling water is made when the rainstick has its direction changed to a vertical position.
Rainsticks may be made with other common materials like paper towel rolls instead of cactus, and nails or toothpicks instead of thorns.
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