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No, a guiro is not a woodwind instrument. It is a percussion instrument made from a hollowed-out gourd or wood, typically played by scraping a stick along its ridges to produce a sound. Woodwind instruments produce sound through the vibration of air in a tube, which is not the case for a guiro.

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