Here are some traditional Puerto Rican instruments; Pandereta, maracas, panderos, palitos.
-basic unit of time is beat
-relationship of time and sound is it’s frequency and wavelength
lmk is this helped
this is more of an opinion type of thing but i think when its soft enough to bite into (but obviously with a little bite because nobody likes mooshy pasta) and when it's not too hard to put a fork through