Italian names/abbreviations for percussion

Does anyone know what these mean:

1. frusta di verghe
   
2. frusta
   
3. rag.
   
4. p.v.
   
5. verso della cornacchia
   
6. fischio del ciclone
   
7. fischio del battello a vapore
   

Frusta di verghe might be a bunch of sticks since verga means rute. But frusta alone?

P.v. are, I'm guessing, a type of cymbals. And fischio is whistle. But which specific whistles are these?

Does anybody know?

presuming the last one is a steam whistle

presuming the last one is a steam whistle

Daniels's book is wrong, partly, in listing the percussion for Am

frusta di verghe = frusta is the whip, and verghe means "sticks", so I guess frusta di verghe means "slapsticks", and frusta means "whip"

frusta = whip, according to what I assumed above

rag. = presumably stands for "raganella",which is italian for Guiro.

p.v. = I don't know, possibly "let vibrate" in italian? (__ vibri? I don't speak italian properly, so I wouldn't know..)

verso della cornacchia = sound/singing of a crow

fischio del ciclone = cyclone whistle (wind machine?)

fischio del battello a vapore = steamboat whistle

Hope I helped. Although if you had googled half of those words you could have probably found out their meaning within a couple of minutes..

EDIT: Also, this could have helped too... which showed up on google results while I was looking for some clarification on the terms you asked us to find for you...

Those could be... piatti vibranti? Although I've never heard of such cymbals. Or piatti verticali, hanging, suspended cymbals?

Hmm, in my percussion book there's a listing of instrument names in different languages and "raganella" is translated as "rattle/ratchet", whereas the guiro is simply called "il guiro". Maybe the word has several meanings though.

I'm pretty sure the Italian for 'let vibrate' is 'lascia vibrare', so l.v., as the French and English, not p.v.