Gonguê

{{short description|Brazilian percussion instrument}}

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| names = Gonguê bell

| classification = Percussion

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| hornbostel_sachs_desc = Resting bells whose opening faces upward

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Gonguê (or Gonguê bell) is a Brazilian percussion instrument.{{Cite book |last=Marcondes |first=Marcos Antônio |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=diUKAQAAMAAJ&q=gongu%C3%AA |title=Enciclopédia da música brasileira: popular, erudita e folclórica |date=1998 |publisher=Art Editora |isbn=978-85-7402-053-2 |language=pt-BR}}{{Cite journal |last=Metz |first=Jerry D. |date=2008 |title=Cultural Geographies of Afro-Brazilian Symbolic Practice: Tradition and Change in Maracatu de Nação (Recife, Pernambuco, Brazil) |url=https://muse.jhu.edu/pub/15/article/244929 |journal=Latin American Music Review |volume=29 |issue=1 |pages=64–95 |doi=10.1353/lat.0.0001 |s2cid=142728672 |issn=1536-0199}} It is a type of cowbell consisting of a big, flat iron bell, measuring from {{convert|20|-|30|cm}}, and a cable that serves as a support. The Gonguê is usually played with a metal drumstick, and it is typically used in north-eastern Brazilian music, accentuating the beats and doing rhythmic phrases, generally formed by off-beats and syncopated patterns. To avoid fatigue, players normally support it against the body. Due to its size, the Gonguê has a loud and strident sound, more clangorous than other types of cowbells.