What's the name of this instrument?

Question

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and what do you think of this instrument? Any interesting info about it?

Answer 1

vegetable scrapper!  Particularly it is very useful in scrapping carrots and coconut..Usually stainless steel is used for the body .  It is open in the center and holed steel plates are fixed on all four sides.  When you scrap carrots or any other vegetable from top to bottom nothing will be scrapped whereas  it will be scrapped  when you scrap it from bottom to top.  I do not know whether  you understood .

Answer 2

A grater commonly known as a cheese grater

A food shaver for the below average intelligenced

Answer 3

Its a Peruvian barometric nose flute. The abundance of holes or apertures as they are know in the high Andes allow the air pressure to escape when playing at high altitude. The handle on top is a Llama grip. When trekking up to the villages in the high Andes everything becomes heavier because of the thin air density. So the  PBNFA ( PERUVIAN BAROMETRIC NOSE FLUTE SOCIEY) modified their instruments so that the handle just fits in the Llama's mouths. The shiny metal construction also allows it to attract the heat from the sun as it gets cold high up in the Andes. This metallic finish also lets the farm workers down in the valleys know that when they see flashes of silver high up in the mountains, that there is a concert due and they chant the age old Peruvian saying "aquellos instrumentistas de nariz metálicos tontos están aquí"

Answer 4

Archaologists still wonder to these days about that special finding and its original use dating around 5,000 BC.

1. Could be some sort of flute but a non-specialist would find the music somewhat grating on your nerves.

2. Some kind of torture instrument.

3. a helping tool to get rid of body lice or helping to get rid of an itch on the back.

4. the earliest tool for cave women to shave..well about 90% of the body hair.

Answer 5

That is a grater

Answer 6

Cheese grater or combination grater.  You can use it to grate lots of things into fine powders and strips.

(potatos, cheese, nutmeg, spices, etc.)

Answer 7

All-Do,...Its a Cat Shaver,....Only in specialist hands though!!,....Miaow!,Jemmy.

Answer 8

It's a grater.

And I think they're great (no pun intended) when I need to shred some cheese or carrots for something:)

Answer 9

My goodness---- how young are you? That grater has been around forever!!!!!

Answer 10

Grater or cheese grater also good for cabbage

Answer 11

Grater or cheese grater. Useful for creating slivers of stuff like carrots, cabbage, cheese.

Answer 12

You realize that's a cheese grater right? 4 Sides, 2 bucks at the dollar store? That kind of musical instrument.

*OMG*

Answer 13

that is a cheese grater.

Answer 14

This is a Box Grater.  I don't who invented it but they were in use when I was a child 70 years ago.

This one is a four sided box but they now have hexagonal boxes.  On side has a 2" long hole for slicing fruit, eggs, veg & cheese, one side has small egg shaped perforations, again for slicing the aforementioned in smaller slivers, one side has a fair sized punctured hole for grating vegetables, one side has smaller holes for finely grating vegetables & hard cheeses

This tool has been largely replaced by the Mandolin by those who can afford them and up that scale would be a food processor.

Answer 15

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