Nacchere -- Italian castanets

Asked to make some castanets for a folk dancing class that was learning a traditional Italian dance. I made sets out of purpleheart, padauk, narra, and katalox.

-- "Nothing retains its own form; but Nature, the great renewer, ever makes up forms from other forms. Be sure there’s nothing perishes in the whole universe; it does but vary and renew its form."