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Percussion Instruments Traditional Galician
O bomb it is made with a large wooden cylinder with two
skin membranes. It is played with a single maza and takes the pace
main accompanying the bagpipe, but never surpassing the sound of this one.
O tamboril is similar to the hype, but much smaller in size and chicken
so much, of more acute sound, and it is touched with two drumsticks. It has drones
only at the top. As the pieces, instruments and formations
foreign were being introduced into Galician culture, the drums were
replaced by drier sound redoubles, such as a box , which allows
sharper and easier redoubles. From the beginning of the twentieth century it returns
to the use of wooden and leather drums as accompaniments to the bagpipe, making
appearance o Galician drum current, evolved from the old drums [2] .
O tambourine (similar to adufe Portuguese) is square, has two faces and no
inside are placed the axóuxeres accompanying the sound of the patch.
It is interpreted supporting in one hand and tangled in the other, making the hand of
support also simple strokes. Others touch it supported on the lap or tied with a
ribbon around the neck, this being a more modern way of playing.
A tambourine it is a traditionally female instrument and consists of a hoop
of wood with two rows of pairs of alternating ferreñas. Of the hoop it is covered only
a face, which is the one that is struck against the wrist, palm, or extremities
of the fingers. The way you play it depends on the zones and the performer, and both accompany
other instruments as it serves as the only accompaniment for interpretation
of songs. Its small size, its versatility and relatively cheap
of its construction has made it now a very popular instrument.
The tambourine , is a mixture of tambourine and tambourine. Very typical of Os Ancares,
consists of a typology of round tambourine , (about 40-50 cm in diameter and
8-12 cm high), but with ferreñas. Highlight that, a small tambourine current
shares denomination in some areas of Galicia with tambourine. For what it is
difficult to know when traditional couplets refer to one or another instrument.
Two shells of scallop scratches against each other can also
accompany any piece as well as the tarrañolas , which are two
wooden slats or even schist .
O charrasco , one less instrument currently employed.
It consists of a long wooden handle, at the upper end of which goes one
wooden rectangle, where a variable number of ferreñas.
A wire goes from the top to the bottom through a transverse stick
which tenses him. With a stick the wire is struck or rubbed, and at the same time struck
the whole instrument against the ground. Its use remains more common
currently, nas charangas Christmas. It is especially characteristic,
of the area of the Low estuaries) .
If you are interested in learning a lot more about musical instruments of ours
Galician tradition , be sure to visit the website of the " Consello da Cultura Galega ".
It has a very rich section dedicated especially to all this matter, with images,
videos playing the different instruments ... And everything we have collected about the
origin of each instrument, how and when they were played by our ancestors etc.
