Brazilian Afro-Cuban Percussion Instrument Roll Call

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(What's a Brazilian Afro-Cuban?)

― The Mad Puffin (The Mad Puffin), Monday, 10 January 2005 21:51 (8 years ago) Permalink

The agogo bells! I just ordered some more last night.

S: surdos (!!!!!), cuica, agogo bells, big cowbells, pandeiro/tambourin, repinique (the Brazilian timbale, played with one stick and one bare hand), triangle (ridiculously hard to play Brazilian-style)

D: Caixa (I don't really like Brazilian snare drums, the little malacachetas are a little cooler though)

― Jordan (Jordan), Monday, 10 January 2005 21:53 (8 years ago) Permalink

I like caxixis (shakers that have different sounds depending on which direction you shake them) too but can't play them worth shit for some reason.

― Jordan (Jordan), Monday, 10 January 2005 21:53 (8 years ago) Permalink

Yeah, it is the cuica. Thanks. The Berimbau is cool too. I used to have a 'Latin' drum machine that had all of that stuff. Hours of fun.

― k3rry (dymaxia), Monday, 10 January 2005 21:54 (8 years ago) Permalink

He means the cuica
Oh yeah. My favorite thing it does is when it makes a sound like the Coco Puffs cuckoo trying to be a human (avian?) beatbox. The reference books say that it was originally some kind of lion call in Africa, IIRC.

Man, I was actually thinking about getting one of those but now it's starting to seem kind of passe.

― Ken L (Ken L), Monday, 10 January 2005 21:55 (8 years ago) Permalink

http://www.brazilianpercussion.com

― Jordan (Jordan), Monday, 10 January 2005 21:59 (8 years ago) Permalink

Cool. Is that where you bought the agogos?

― Ken L (Ken L), Monday, 10 January 2005 22:09 (8 years ago) Permalink

Yep! Their shipping is pretty high unless it's a big order, so I got in on someone else's (the local batucada group).

I really want a timba or tam-tan, but they're expensive and I'm not very good at hand drums anyway.

― Jordan (Jordan), Monday, 10 January 2005 22:15 (8 years ago) Permalink

Brazilian Afro-Cuban
I was originally going to just say "Brazilian" but I didn't want to limit the tread. Insert a slash if you like.

― Ken L (Ken L), Monday, 10 January 2005 22:17 (8 years ago) Permalink

If we allow generally Latin, African, etc. or "world percussion," I gotta vote for the kalimba.

In addition to the usual conga/bongo/shaker/tambourine stuff, I will sometimes use a bodhran. I have a riq (small single-headed Egyptian tambourine), but I've never used it in a serious musical setting.

― The Mad Puffin (The Mad Puffin), Monday, 10 January 2005 22:36 (8 years ago) Permalink

I firmly believe that tambourines with jingles and one head are the funkiest musical instruments ever, especially when played gospel-style with one hand holding it and hitting against the palm of the other hand with sort of a flipping motion. That's kind of how people play bodhran, isn't it?

Brazilian tambourine playing is really hard.

― Jordan (Jordan), Monday, 10 January 2005 22:40 (8 years ago) Permalink

Bodhran technique is weird. One hand is inside it for dampening. With the other, the motion is sometimes described as "point the beater at your navel. Now pretend you're playing rhythm guitar." It is a motion unlike anything else.

I must confess that I'm not very good at playing the tambourine. I've always been in awe of people who can do a roll on a tambourine. Mostly I use hit a stand-mounted headless one with a stick.

― The Mad Puffin (The Mad Puffin), Monday, 10 January 2005 22:45 (8 years ago) Permalink

i have a cuica, but i think i mighta gotten a bass version of it because it doesn't make high pitched monkey noises. it sounds more like i'm farting :(

― JaXoN (JasonD), Monday, 10 January 2005 22:46 (8 years ago) Permalink

Maybe you need to change your diet, JaXoN.

― The Mad Puffin (The Mad Puffin), Monday, 10 January 2005 22:47 (8 years ago) Permalink

What about the big Turkish tambourine that inspired the song "Mister Tambourine Man" - what's that one called?

― Ken L (Ken L), Monday, 10 January 2005 22:47 (8 years ago) Permalink

3 months pass...

I think it is called a mazhar.

― Ken L (Ken L), Monday, 25 April 2005 16:03 (8 years ago) Permalink

"i have a cuica, but i think i mighta gotten a bass version of it because it doesn't make high pitched monkey noises. it sounds more like i'm farting :("

I think you just have to do it faster, no?

― phil jones (interstar), Monday, 25 April 2005 21:31 (8 years ago) Permalink

djembe

― tremendoid (tremendoid), Monday, 25 April 2005 21:37 (8 years ago) Permalink

MACHACA!*

*actually beef, not a musical instrument.

― Hurting (Hurting), Monday, 25 April 2005 22:18 (8 years ago) Permalink

3 years pass...

http://www.nscottrobinson.com/framedrums.php

― James Redd and the Blecchs, Monday, 1 September 2008 19:05 (4 years ago) Permalink

3 years pass...

S: The Ganzá!

― Ian Hunter Is Learning the Game (James Redd and the Blecchs), Monday, 21 May 2012 01:16 (1 year ago) Permalink

I thought machaca was Mexican.

― _Rudipherous_, Monday, 21 May 2012 01:21 (1 year ago) Permalink

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