Can anyone identify these sounds/instruments?

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aceover9

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I'm looking to identify three sounds. Two of them kind of sound the same.

1: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qtZFg4DrOGc

There's a rattle that plays throughout the song. I am pretty ure it's a rattle but it might not be. You can hear it distinctively at the end. (At about 0:48 seconds)



2: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6ybNs0hvyso

Right at the very beginning there's an instrument that plays a melody. It's one often used for Italian music. What is it?



3: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m45pY4QARLw

At 14:57 a song starts to play and there's this, like, zipper-esque sound. Or like someone rubbing on plastic? Or running a stick down a washboard. Something like that. I hear it places but I can never tell what it is. It's buried into the percussion and plays intermittently at a rhythm. You first hear it right at the end of 14:58 right before 14:59.

4: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mhLa6EzcB74

That instrument/sound that plays right at the beginning. A common Japanese instrument but what is it exactly?


Anyone know? Thanks in advance for any info.
 
1) vibraslap or quijade depending on whether you buy the LP modern version or the older jaw of an ass

2) mandolin can emulate with a 12 string guitar if that is all you have (could be a bouziki or an oud or a balalaika as well)

3) guiro - most likely a merengue guiro (metal body rather than the wooden one) played with what looks like an Afro comb

4) the first sound to play is shamisen, a wind instrument, then the taiko and wind chimes then the koto
 
Thanks for the info. Two different identifications for the 4th one. I checked out both instruments and I can't figure out or find any examples of them sounding like that sound that plays at the very beginning of number 4.

Oh and before I forget, in number 4 shortly after the song begins there is like a bell or chime commonly heard in Japanese music. Any idea what sound that is?

Thanks again. I'll keep looking for more shamisen samples to see if I can find an example of that sustained sound.
 
I correct my original statement for 4 - it is a Sho - a wind instrument



the bells are simple sleigh bells (in western terms) and are known as Kagura suzu
 
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