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Here are presented the percussion instruments used by ensemble “Ainiai“. If you press the image of the instrument, you will see the larger photo, and if you want to hear its sound, press LISTEN. You will be prompted to download mp3 file (you can open it with your favorite program, eg.: Winamp or Windows Media Player). 
| Skrabalai -Wooden bells are wooden percussion instrument made from wooden logs of various sizes.
In the ancient times such logs used to be made by shepherds: they installed the clapper inside. Such wooden bell used to be hung under the neck of the animals.
LISTEN |  | Džingulis (jingler) is a signal instrument, a tool of wedding barker. The barker used to hang and decorate the stick with rattling and jingling things, and then he used to ride a horse through the village and attract the attention of all people by rattling and twinkling of the stick.
In present everyday life džingulis is not used, and it is used in the ensemble as a rhythmical instrument. It is a long maple stick, on the top of which the round circle is mounted, and it is hung with bells of different forms. LISTEN |  | Tabalai (danglers) are the most primitive signal percussion instruments. They used to be hung by the bathhouses and barns. They were played after the bath had been heated, and served to invite people for having bath. The signals for men and women were different. The sound of tabalai may be heard in the distance of three kilometers. LISTEN |  | Pliauška (cracker) is a rhythmical instrument of loud sound. Pliauška is made from two firry plates joined by skin. Wooden handlers are fixed on the plates, which help to hit the plates to each other, and the sound is made in such a way. LISTEN |  | Ring is a percussion instrument used in the musical programs of the ensemble, as well as for the educational purposes.
The instrument is made from wooden bifurcate, on which the rings taken from the stove are put. The branches of bifurcate are tied by rope so that the rings did not fall down.
Earlier, rings were used by pasturing shepherds. LISTEN |  | Rattle is a percussion instrument that was used by shepherds or ordinary teenagers when they were chasing sheep, pigs or other animals. Unceasing rattling of the tree is the only music made by this instrument. It is probably not used in the household any more. The ensemble uses the rattle in its concert programs. LISTEN |  | Drum. LISTEN |
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