Pandeiro and integrating it into the modern drum kit. Others, such as Sule Greg Wilson on the Carolina Chocolate Drops album "Genuine Negro Jig", use it in tandem with a tunable bodhran — also mounted — and play them as a pair with brushes to create drum kit effects, as well as their original intent as hand-held percussion. Pandeiro The pandeiro () is a type of hand frame drum popular in Brazil, and which has been described as an unofficial instrument of that nation. The drumhead is tunable, and the rim holds metal jingles ("platinelas"), which are cupped creating a crisper,
Popular Socialist Party (Brazil) Popular Socialist Party (Brazil) The Popular Socialist Party (, PPS, also translated as "Socialist People's Party") is a social democratic political party in Brazil. It was founded in 1992 after the main body of the Brazilian Communist Party decided to reinvent itself as a social democratic party following the collapse of the Soviet Union. A minority faction of the Brazilian Communist Party retained the old name. The PPS was a part of the coalition government of Brazilian President Luis Inácio da Silva until December 2004, when its leader withdrew its support from the coalition. Ciro Gomes of the PPS refused