They make the vuvuzela sound like Louis Armstrong playing Gabriel's trumpet on a cloud in heaven.
And even if I didn't like the vuvuzela, I would keep my objections to myself.
"The caxirola as with the vuvuzela, is the ball of the fans, " explained Brown.
CNN: Brazil unveils shaky answer to the vuvuzela for World Cup
Well, a London doctor is warning that the vuvuzela could also spread colds and flu germs.
The sound that issues from the vuvuzela is cacophonous -- joyful and infuriating at the same time.
Perhaps it's the Stockholm Syndrome, but I've grown to like the vuvuzela, for any number of reasons.
However, Brazil might not want their musical invention to follow quite the same path as the vuvuzela.
CNN: Brazil unveils shaky answer to the vuvuzela for World Cup
Brandon Bernardo of the vuvuzela.co.za website told Reuters news agency they could churn out at least 10, 000 instruments a day.
It denies us tranquility, sure, but the vuvuzela is a little bit like tranquility: a beautiful word for a beautiful thing.
Several players complained about the vuvuzela when they were first heard during the Confederations Cup last year, a World Cup dress rehearsal.
For better and worse, the vuvuzela is the sound of South Africa.
The Vuvuzela has become the unofficial symbol of the 2010 World Cup - and seems to be loved and hated in equal measure.
The vuvuzela's were getting louder with each minute as the potential for a huge upset grew stronger as South Africa's work-rate stifled Brazil.
The Nazarath Baptist Church says it "lost" the vuvuzela back in the 1990s when a supporter of South Africa's biggest football team visited the church.
Arsenal and Tottenham Hotspur were among the first English Premier League clubs to silence the vuvuzela, banning it from their grounds because of concerns over irritation and safety.
CNN: Brazil unveils shaky answer to the vuvuzela for World Cup
If the caxirola follows the fate of the vuvuzela or rattle, Brazil has a Plan B involving the production of a plastic version of the indigenous pedhua whistle, which mimics bird calls.
CNN: Brazil unveils shaky answer to the vuvuzela for World Cup
However, earlier this year, the Nazareth Baptist Church claimed the vuvuzela as its own - used by its members on pilgrimages - and threatened legal action to stop them being used at the World Cup.
With the 2010 World Cup, the vuvuzela joins the ticking stopwatch on "60 Minutes" and the piercing signal of the Emergency Broadcast System in the pantheon of nonmusical sounds that instantly tell you what is on TV even before you've entered the room.
Long after the World Cup final is played on July 11, the sound of the vuvuzela will remain instantly evocative of South Africa -- as the didjeridoo is to Australia, the bagpipe is to Scotland or the car horn is to New York City.
She said a recent study found that aerosols, tiny droplets which can carry flu and cold germs, were formed at the bottom of a vuvuzela after people had blown into them.
The typical pitch of a vuvuzela is said to be B flat below middle C.
Mabaso told CNN that his club may have been the first to have a vuvuzela on its terrace.
CNN: History of the vuvuzela: The fight for the right to the horn
Domenech came on to the pitch to try to calm the situation, but at least it was something to rouse the crowd, leading to a brief cacophony of vuvuzela sounds.
Dr Ruth McNerney, of the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, told The Associated Press that the instrument has the potential to infect those seated near a person blowing a vuvuzela because a "lot of breath goes through" it.
Vuvuzela-makers say they began to mass-produce the instrument in plastic when the original tin version began to make appearances at games during the 1990s.
Inside the bar, the fans cheered and shouted raucously at the TV screens, chanting "Forca Angola" ("Go Angola") and blowing vuvuzela air horns.
Neil van Schalkwyk of Masincedane Sport - a vuvuzela-maker - says his firm has now produced an instrument that is 20 decibels lower than the older version.
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