CHOCALLO
A classical music word search puzzle by ALLAN RAE
The chocallo, sometimes spelt Chocalo, is a percussion instrument - a long fat metal tube filled with beads or shot, and also a kind of jingle stick used to play Brazilian samba music. Its origin is Galician, originally 'klokkos', meaning 'bell', and is also related to the Portuguese word chocalho, which means 'shaker', and can refer to various instruments, including cowbells. Chocallo is also a surname, common in North America.
Chocallo is just one of the many words hidden in my latest word search puzzle, below, provided here for your weekend entertainment, similar to those which I've published here previously.
My 'Find a word' puzzle Chocallo is shown above. How many words can you find? If the puzzle is not visible, or if you can't see the letters in the puzzle clearly, then please click here. All of the words below are hidden in the puzzle above. If you can't see the list of words clearly, please click here.
You may find it useful to print out both the puzzle and the word list, so that you can mark the squares with a stroke and mark the words that you've already found.
Just to remind you, words in these puzzles can be hidden vertically, horizontally, diagonally and in retrograde.
The solution is complex as many letters are used multiple times, making these puzzles very dense, so only marking a line 'stroke' through the word is necessary. (Many commercial puzzles specify that each word should be circled when found; on these hand drawn puzzles, however, it is necessary just to stroke.)
A detail from the Chocallo puzzle,
in which is hidden the word 'Chocallo'
Some of the words in the puzzle may be unfamiliar, so while you attempt to solve the puzzle, why not also try looking up those words that you don't know - for example Baglama, Hichiriki, Mancando, Nares or Zuffolo - to improve your vocabulary.
Good luck! Please let me know how you get on, via the Classical Music Daily contact page. You can also suggest words - composers, compositions, musical terms etc - for future puzzles. I have a dictionary of sorts containing at least 2,500 music terms, and have made several hundred puzzles like the one above. More next month!
Copyright © 12 July 2024
Allan Rae,
Calgary, Canada