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Rattle called a old musical instrument in the form of ring, or horseshoe, which contained metal plates, threaded on rods, which blew shaking. The Sitra is considered a percussion instrument idiophones family, in the range of percussive indirectly, or shaken, how maracas, castanets and bells.
It was widely used in religious festivals of ancient Egypt, the Romans who copied it. He was considered an attribute of the goddess Hathor, and was also related to the goddesses Isis and Bastet Bat. |
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The cymbal (also known as Hungarian cimbalom) is a musical instrument that has a somewhat uncertain origin. It is believed that the Roma in Eastern Europe led to approximately the thirteenth century. It is widely used in music from countries such as Hungary, Romania, Slovakia, Ukraine, etc., and Persian music in Iran, where it is known as the Santur.
It is a stringed instrument, and played with a pair of mallets in both hands, tapping the strings to make them sound. It is a kind of dulcimer but larger, although there are also portable. The first performance of a simple string instrument of percision which is categorized as a deck dulcimer can be found in the Assyrian bas-relief in Kyindjuk, around the year 3500 BC. People all over the Mediterranean had this instrument, as well as many villages in Asia, but called it by different names. |
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The form of any instrument determines the attitude of the musician and the type of music played. The shape of the Celestial Harp is based on the dimensions inherent in the circle, square and spiral. Seventy-two ropes radiating from the center by a spiral bridge and out on a bridge square. There is also a circle of dishes.
There are eight double strings and a direct relationship of each string to sixty-four hexagrams of the I Ching. Each branch has its own dishes. There are eight double stops and a direct relationship of each string to sixty-four hexagrams of the I Ching. Each branch has its own dishes. The Harp Celeste has a very strong emphasis on space. The musician must move around it. There is no beginning or end to it. |
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Balafon The large geographical area covering the western part of the continent, with its undeniable diversity of countries and peoples, has not prevented traditionally have spoken of it as a cultural unit on some topics. This is perhaps the case of musical tradition, a common understanding of man's relationship with the sound through a parallel type, but never identical, instruments and dance. KORA The djembe, which has a fairly widespread use in most East African countries and could be considered as the official instrument of the area, but always remember that it comes from and is still more characteristic of Guinea. |
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Although the term albogues (from Arabic al-buk, trumpet) can be used to designate some Idiophones simple, its use more widespread divider various types of single reed instruments, wind instruments, and tubes of flag bearing Sound amplifier. All have one or two tubes albogues Cylindrical Sound of drill, but in many cases and curiously cut on the outside is square. Usually cane or wood and sometimes of bone. In one end is inserted made of bamboo reeds, or straw of cereal Ramit wood. That has to Practica a longitudinal separating Print That vibrates the air passage. It's the sound of the instrument body.
At the other end of the tube presents SERVE that flag of the amplifier, is conical, truncated verticals inserted and the place where the rest of the instrument is docked, or made of a piece with that.The pavilion is bark Manufacture of vegetable, but the wood ... bull or cow horn, for acoustic and morphological characteristics Addition is the material used for more that role. Work with the horn is Easy, is shock resistant, durable, properly lowered, takes excellent sonic characteristics. In addition, elaborate decorations is to benefits. |
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