Auxiliary Section

Agogo Bells

Made of metal, they are used in samba and its offshoots. The sound is made by striking a stick against the instrument's two bells, producing a high and low tone. The most common arrangement is two bells attached by a U shaped piece of metal.

The smaller bell is held uppermost. Either bell may be hit with a wooden stick to make a cow-bell like sound or less commonly a clicking sound is produced by squeezing the two bells together. The agogo is the highest pitched instruments of the entire bateria setup.

Chocalho

This is a very large powerful shaker made of wood or metal with a number of steel jingles. This is a fundamental element in the flavour of a bateria, and also has an important function in helping the caixas to sustain the rhythm.

Lee Sue Ann
Agogo Bells / Chocalho

Voted most likely to glow-in-the-dark.
Sue Ann suffers from an acute form of fairness, also described by dictionary.com as "glow-in-the-dark", "colourless" and "luminiscence". She currently considers donning sunglasses for Samba’s performances after getting blinded repeatedly by her own reflection through the shiny silvery instruments she plays, the agogo bells and the chocalho.

Melissa Law
Agogo Bells / Chocalho

Josephine Heng
Agogo Bells / Chocalho

Voted most likely to have super eidetic memory.
Josephine aka JOjo - a Chocalho / Agogo bell player, a perfectionist, known to be extra sensitive to music n rhythm. Has the ability to remember every single rhythm being taught & serves as a “database” for fellow samba mates to retrieve “memories”. Love to perform, treasure every opportunity to perform & always give her best for every single performances.

Angeline Tan
Agogo Bells

Voted most likely to be Samba's resident match-maker.
Ever since Angel played cupid, wedding BELLS have never sounded the same again.

Suzana
Agogo Bells

Voted most likely to rock the bells.
Suzana, an agogo bell player, believes that  rocking with Samba Masala keeps her sane in the crazy world of SMU.

Cheong Hui Min
Agogo Bells

Voted most likely to perish first in a famine.
Hui Min, a bells freshie, is extraordinarily talented in making Agogo notes smell like food. Hamburgers, popcorn, laksa, chicken rice. You name it, she plays it.

Bong Ting Li
Agogo Bells

Voted most likely to submit her profile soon!

Clarinda Chia
Agogo Bells / Chocalho

Voted most likely to have a weird nickname in samba eg. Clarindac.
Clarindac, a chocalho player has been known to kill many people who have mistaken her instrument for the abacus. People, you do not use my instrument to count, and dear band, please so not speed up as my arms will fall off.

Audrey Soh
Agogo Bells

Voted most likely to have a hidden agenda.
Audrey, an agogo bells player, has been secretly transforming the band through genetically altered facepaint and bubble tea. Soon, Samba Masala will be performing on streets with nothing but painted on "clothes" and a tendency to treat their instruments as rugby balls.

Joy Tan
Agogo Bells

Voted most likely to be taller than you.
WHO put her in front?

Leong Shuanna
Agogo Bells

Voted most likely to look very stress during practice.
Shuanna, a passionate bell player now played the tams when she first joined Samba Masala. She loves samba music a lot and enjoys grooving to it. Do remember to watch out for her during performance!! =)

Vanessa Huang
Agogo Bells

Voted most likely to submit her profile soon!

Angela Chan
Agogo Bells / Chocalho

Voted most likely to roar like a lion
Angelion, a 3rd year agogo-bell player (who occasionally plays the shakey shakey), has been known to resemble a lion thus adding diversity and life to Samba Masala. You'll hear her before you see her. Audiences beware, she bites.

Berdine Geh
Agogo Bells

Voted most likely to submit her profile soon!

Clara Tan
Agogo Bells / Chocalho

Voted most likely to be the Agogo Bell stick eater.
Clara is a Bell and Chocalho player. Playing Samba music gets Clara so high she bites on the bell sticks. This explains why the sticks are all chewed up.

Imelda Mo
Agogo Bells / Chocalho

Voted most likely to talk the least but say the most.
Imelda is torn between the excitement of playing the agogo bells and chochalho. Her general sense of randomness is displayed through her asking random people to teach her random samba beats on various random instruments. (:

Jeannette Thia
Agogo Bells / Chocalho

Voted most likely to get distracted by shopping during busking session breaks.
Jeannette, auxiliary section extraordinaire, loves to play the agogos, chocalho, and pretend to play the caixa - all for the love of samba and everything else fashionable.

Loo Jing Qin
Agogo Bells

Voted most likely to be a stoner.
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Pamela Wong
Agogo Bells

Voted most likely to take out her shoes when samba-ingg cuz her feet hurts if she happens to not be in slippers.
Pamela a year three bell girl tries her best to move enthusiastically.  =)