A more and more indispensable component of a percussion set, for sound effects engineers or percussionists who like colourful sound textures…

A rainstick is an idiophone that consists of a dried, hollowed out stick of bamboo, filled with shell fragments and sand. By swinging it gently, the player can reproduce the sound of a wave dying on a shore or other fluid sounds (running water).

So here's a rainstick of 16" high, made out of bamboo et entirely hand painted and varnished.

Each model is unique (non-contractual pictures).

On the sound sample you may hear the tessitura and the sound timing developed by this raining stick.