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Palillos, or castanets as they are more commonly known, is a hand percussion instrument made of two hollow "shells" with strings attached. Bullets made of stone, wood or, more commonly, glass fiber. Just as with other Spanish music claves, attacking players Palillo two shells together, often in a repeating pattern, to create a high pitched clicking noise and suddenly different. Usually two pairs Palillos used at the same time, with the size and campers are different from the

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