Given that Ireland has now a strong Polish community, there's a fair chance that with time local sessions will embrace this beautiful (albeit complex) instrument from the very coast of the Baltic sea - the Devil's Fiddle:
Isn't the first instrument also known as a rommelpot? There's a painting of a boy playing one by Vermeer(?). It's a straw attached to a diaphragm which is rubbed with a damp cloth to produce the sound.
Well of course that's a question of interpretation..
Personally I'd say that I think you should be able to play some kind of melody or at least be able to accompany a melody in an effective and contributing way, to define it as a "musical instrument"!
Making strange rubbing sounds, that sounds like some kind of weird monkey, does not fit into that category if you ask me!
@ llig leahcim
Haha, that's another great example of something that does not sound very musical.. This one sounded more like an elephant than a monkey, though!
Quite right Mattias. As the young Zappa was illustrating very succinctly, the honor of defining what is music and what is just a bloody racket always falls squarely on the person who's making the racket/music. And any judgement either way from the outside is mere irrelevant supercilious intervention.
Coming to a session near you...
Coming to a session near you...
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l5YvtPWou68
# Posted on August 28th 2011 by gam
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It's name might be cuíca but it sounds like he's playing a cloaca.
# Posted on August 28th 2011 by fidkid
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God forgive me for the thoughts I'm thinking !!!!
# Posted on August 28th 2011 by Free Reed
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You never know what you might hear during the climax
(of a piece of music). It's like something right out of Austin Powers. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JiGegAwSQcg&NR=1
# Posted on August 28th 2011 by Batgirl has left the GPL ;)
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Given that Ireland has now a strong Polish community, there's a fair chance that with time local sessions will embrace this beautiful (albeit complex) instrument from the very coast of the Baltic sea - the Devil's Fiddle:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ed1v6kUkfYQ
If you live in Ireland, this is much more likely coming to a session near you. Think about it.
# Posted on August 29th 2011 by Janek
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Isn't the first instrument also known as a rommelpot? There's a painting of a boy playing one by Vermeer(?). It's a straw attached to a diaphragm which is rubbed with a damp cloth to produce the sound.
# Posted on August 29th 2011 by Paul_draper
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I have always wondered why some people choose to learn an "instrument" that does not even sound like a musical instrument..
I mean, what's the point?
# Posted on August 29th 2011 by Mattias Holm
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how would you define something that sounds like a musical instrument, Mattias?
# Posted on August 29th 2011 by fiddlelearner
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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=izDvYokFU7U
# Posted on August 29th 2011 by ...
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"Isn't the first instrument also known as a rommelpot?"
See "friction drum" - there are many variants including the rommelpot and the cuíca. The cuíca adds a lot to a samba - not just a novelty.
# Posted on August 29th 2011 by Weejie
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Nice clip, Michael. I suppose that's where this chap got the idea...
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HvZVt_7fK0Y&NR=1
at least you can ride it home afterwards, unlike the tosspot or whatever it's called.
Janek -- that thing looks like a cross between Morris dancing and voodoo.
# Posted on August 29th 2011 by gam
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@ fiddlelearner
Well of course that's a question of interpretation..
Personally I'd say that I think you should be able to play some kind of melody or at least be able to accompany a melody in an effective and contributing way, to define it as a "musical instrument"!
Making strange rubbing sounds, that sounds like some kind of weird monkey, does not fit into that category if you ask me!
@ llig leahcim
Haha, that's another great example of something that does not sound very musical.. This one sounded more like an elephant than a monkey, though!
# Posted on August 29th 2011 by Mattias Holm
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The cuica in it's natural habitat.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0B4ye0NPqWU
Carnival!
# Posted on August 29th 2011 by Jusa Nutter Eejit
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That thing is weird... I can't even figure out why it would be used.
# Posted on August 29th 2011 by fiddlelearner
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Well, I guess my conclusion is that there are really vast differences between what different people refer to as "music"..
# Posted on August 30th 2011 by Mattias Holm
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Quite right Mattias. As the young Zappa was illustrating very succinctly, the honor of defining what is music and what is just a bloody racket always falls squarely on the person who's making the racket/music. And any judgement either way from the outside is mere irrelevant supercilious intervention.
# Posted on August 30th 2011 by ...
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I've got a Cuica.
I love it very much.
i think it sounds good with banjo.
# Posted on August 31st 2011 by DubChieftain
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"I've got a Cuica"
I'm sorry to hear that. My uncle had one - he died. I hear there are new techniques these days, though.
# Posted on August 31st 2011 by Jon Kiparsky
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I went to the hunt kennels and heard12 pair making that sort of noise.
dreadfull
# Posted on September 2nd 2011 by geoffwright