I had the pleasure of participating in an impromptu percussion session this evening that featured a lot of unusual instruments (as well as the usual) and I picked up this "thing" that was like 5 small tin cans welded together in sort of an Olympic Rings logo shape.   It was a shaker instrument and it sounded great!  Depending upon how you held it, it had all kinds of distinct tones and each of the cans had a kind of concave surface that you could use against your palm for even more variations.

It was sort of old and beat up but, it had a label, partially worn away, that I think said "Frederico Percussion".  The guy who owned it was a very experienced and accomplished player and he could not remember where or when he got it.  He thought it might have come from Nashville but he couldn't be sure.

Anyway, I want one!  Does anybody know what it's called and/or where I can get one?

Thanks!

Al

Bart, thanks!  

I'm nervous and hesitant to question your call on anything but, all the ganzas that I've found "google-ing" don't look anything like what I saw tonight.  You may be correct that what I saw was a form of ganza but one thing I really liked about the one I played tonight was that it could be held and played almost like a tambourine becauce of the way the cans were welded together.  

Was this one maybe just an old style that is hard to find?  Is there a chance that maybe it was something else?

I post with trepidation.  ;-)

Oh, maybe I should have mentioned that, laid "flat" on its side, so that it looks like the Olympic logo, it was maybe 3" deep.   each "can" was about 4" in diameter.  

That's a great site and I looked at pretty much every picture of every kind of shaker on it - nothing looked even close.   I can see where my original description might have fit with a ganza because I failed to mention about how deep the cans were - my bad.

I wish I had had a camera with me...