How do you play a rain stick?

How do you play a rain stick?

The Native Americans have used rain sticks to entice the rain gods to bring rain. Small pebbles or gravel are used inside of the rain stick so that they strike the thorns and produce the sound of falling rain. The rain stick is used to create atmospheric sounds and as a percussion instrument.

Are rain sticks used in Africa?

Africa is a very dry place in the plains. Instead of an arrow rainsticks have been used by native African tribes to "summon" the rain during a drought. A drought is a time when there is very little rain. Rainsticks are made from a dried out cactus.

What country do rain sticks come from?

Other claims for the origin of the rainstick say that the Diaguita Indians of Chile used the instrument to bring rain. Certainly the Diaguita, farmers who live in the Atacama Desert area of northern Chile and Argentina, need precipitation, since their area is some of the driest in the world.

What are rain sticks used for?

Rain sticks are usually made from dried cactus, reeds, or bamboo and then filled with pebbles or beans. It is believed that they were used by indigenous farming tribes in arid climates with the hopes of calling for rain for their crops.