Rattle may refer to:

Instruments

* Crotalus (liturgy), a liturgical percussion instrument *

Rattle (percussion instrument) A rattle is a type of percussion instrument which produces a sound when shaken. Rattles are described in the Hornbostel–Sachs system as ''Shaken Idiophones or Rattles (112.1)''. According to Sachs, Rattles include: * Maracas, widely used ...

, a type of percussion instrument * Rattle (percussion beater), a part of some percussion instruments *

Ratchet (instrument) A ratchet or rattle, more specifically, cog rattle is a musical instrument of the percussion family and a warning/signaling device. It operates on the principle of the ratchet device, using a gearwheel and a stiff board mounted on a handle, whi ...

, a percussion instrument *

Bird-scaring rattle A klopotec (pronounced ) is a wooden mechanical device on a high wooden pole, similar to a windmill. It is used as a bird scarer in the vineyards of traditional wine-growing landscapes of Slovenia, Austria, and Croatia. It is one of the symbols o ...

, a Slovene device used to drive birds off vineyards and a folk instrument *

Toy rattle A baby rattle is a rattle produced specifically for the amusement of an infant. Rattles have been used for this purpose since antiquity, and experts in child development believe they help the infant improve hand eye coordination by stimulating th ...

, a baby toy

Music

The Rattles The Rattles are a German rock band, formed in Hamburg in 1960, best known for their 1970 psychedelic hit single, "The Witch". Career The Rattles performed in Hamburg, and played at the same venues as The Beatles on several occasions in 1962. In ...

, German rock band who recorded an upbeat version of "Zip-a-dee-doo-dah" in the 1960s also famous for their 1970 hit "The Witch" * "Rattle" (song), a 2011 electro house song by Dutch duo Bingo Players * " Rattle!", a 2020 song by American contemporary worship band Elevation Worship *

Rattle Records Rattle Records, established in 1991, is a contemporary art-music label based in Auckland, New Zealand. It releases compositions generally by New Zealand composers in contemporary art genres. It has been described as "the de facto home of New Zeala ...

, a New Zealand contemporary art-music label.

Places

* Rattle, Derbyshire, a hamlet in England * Rattle Hill, a summit in Sullivan County, New York

People

* Frederick Rattle (1869–1950), Australian politician * Nick Levay aka Rattle (1977–2021), American computer security expert *

Simon Rattle Sir Simon Denis Rattle (born 19 January 1955) is a British-German conductor. He rose to international prominence during the 1980s and 1990s, while music director of the City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra (1980–1998). Rattle was principa ...

(born 1955), English conductor

Science

Death rattle Terminal respiratory secretions (or simply terminal secretions),, known colloquially as a death rattle, are sounds often produced by someone who is near death as a result of fluids such as saliva and Bronchus, bronchial secretions accumulating in ...

, gurgling sounds often produced by a person near death * '' Rhinanthus'', a genus of plants * RATTLE, a

constraint algorithm In computational chemistry, a constraint algorithm is a method for satisfying the Newtonian motion of a rigid body which consists of mass points. A restraint algorithm is used to ensure that the distance between mass points is maintained. The gene ...

used in molecular dynamics simulations * Rattle GUI a gui for the statistical programming language R

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