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LAGERPHONE
lagerphone
(noun) an Australian percussion instrument used for playing bush music; a long stick with bottle caps nailed loosely to it; played by hitting it with a stick or banging it on the ground
Source: WordNet® 3.1
Etymology
Noun
lagerphone (plural lagerphones)
(Australia) A generally homemade percussion instrument consisting of crown cap beer bottle tops loosely nailed to a pole (often a broom handle) and a board mounted cross-ways on the pole (the head of the broom), and played by striking the pole on the ground or with a stick, by drawing the serrated stick across the pole, or by shaking the instrument. [From 1952.]
Synonyms
• (percussion instrument with bottle caps): boozaphone, mendoza/mendozer, monkey stick, Murrumbidgee River Rattler
Source: Wiktionary
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