Gli Strumenti

Of ancient origins, one can see statues of priestesses in museums phoenix with the drum frame in your hand or in the act of playing it, was related to worship the moon and considered essential for women. And 'now prevalent throughout the Mediterranean begins with the tanning, with salt and alum of the skin which is mostly kids but also rabbits and even dogs. Still wet, the leather is stretched over a frame-made from a narrow strip of wood shaped into a circle around it-and fixed with glue and nails, sometimes with the addition of a controcerchio wood. Along the frame, the slots can be opened rectangular plates which are inserted pairs of metal, beaten and temperate insured by wire called "branches" in their absence the Tammorra is defined outline. Manufacturers used to decorate the instrument with small floral patterns painted along the frame or painted with scenes of chivalry argument on the skin.

"Tric-ballac" (derived from "Talabalacco" that used to play Saracens in battle) or, more commonly, "Triccabballacca" (also called "Triccabballacco", "Trunchetrù", "Tips-Tricks", "Triccabballacche", " Tricchebballacche and Triccafallacco "), is a combined: percussion. consists of 3 wooden bar (round, square, machined or otherwise worked), and at the top are applied across the board,
as many cylinders of wood, forming 3 hammers .
Inferiorly, are fixed with nails or pins, within a fluted base, while points are included in
a frame that limits the oscillations.
On the outer side of hammers (and sometimes the head of office), are applications of the saucer of milk.
The "Tric-ballac" is used to the rhythm and sounds collide by side hammers, which are mobile (under appeal below the head) against the central government, which is fixed.
Shaking the instrument, so as to vibrate the only saucer of milk, you get a kind of swish (evoking the whispering of the sea)
is exploited to create marine atmospheres or at least sentimental.
The "Tric-ballac" is decorated with colorful ribbons, bows, inlay work and small sculptures.
Its height varies from about 30 centimeters of the smallest, to nearly 2 meters of the largest, with the image variation in height and intensity of the sounds we produce.

The term troccola identifies some popular musical instruments made of a wooden board on which you have the "handles" made of metal. Waving troccola handles in wood, metal strike the body, producing a characteristic sound. In another type of troccola, made only of wood, the sound is instead obtained by rotating a part of the instrument with a centrifugal movement. Thanks to this movement a strip of wood flying repeatedly over a sprocket, thereby producing sound.
The troccola is often used in religious processions and other events of the folk tradition of southern Italy, especially in the rites of Holy Week during which abolished the use of bells.

The "Scetavajasse (Sceta: alarm; vajasse: serves, the populace of easy virtue, hysterical, quarrelsome, slander, and in significantly worse, angry and violent, sorcerers and sorceresses) represents, as part of Neapolitan folk instruments, a stimulator of primal instincts and animalistic, a push toward
orgiastic atmosphere and, ultimately, the demonic spirit of evil. This interpretation is reinforced from usual commoner phrase: "give scetavajasse nu" (give a slap, a loud slap), in which you express the desire to do evil, causing pain.
In its traditional form, the "scetavajasse" consists of two sticks of wood 20: A smooth, generally rounded, challenging you with your left hand at one end, resting the other on the shoulder or chest, and the other serrated ( type waves more or less marked or sawtooth) of about 2 / 3 of length, usually a square shape, it is challenging with the right hand (as if it were un'archetto violin) and rub vigorously on the first. The stick has notched plates of tin attached above. Used alone (in music-inspired seafood), were obtained with the shaking of the plates, suggestive atmosphere evoking waves of the sea. Both poles are decorated with brightly colored ribbons and, sometimes, with inlay work and small sculptures. In the past there was another type of scetavajasse, consisting of bamboo: the wavy, or notched, slipped inside the other. Clearly, the intrinsic fragility of the 'tool' has led to its disappearance. Was called "Pandola" (ancient name of "Mandola", an instrument plectrum) with blunt sense of humor people, or, perhaps, a distant recollection of similarity timbre of the sounds produced.

One of the most original instruments created by the inventive folk, south of Naples in general and in particular, the "Caccavella", which for onomatopoeia, the populace took the name "Putipù. This instrument is considered a friction drum and is also called "fart," Puti-Puti "," Pigna "," Cute-cute "," Cupelloni "=" Pan-bomb "(Spanish origin), and "CUPA-dark" (especially in Puglia). The "Caccavella" (or "Putipù") consists of: a sound box, a membrane of skin or large canvas, a bamboo cane. The sound box, decorated with colored ribbons on the edge, could be: an earthenware pot, as in "caccavella" and the "pan-bomb" (the pottery is a clay of superior quality that is used in the south of Italy for construction of vases, plates and utensils), a wooden tub (small in the "putipù" larger in the "Cupelloni"), a cylinder of tin (often drawn from large cans of tomato). In the absence of animal skins, the membrane of skin (which was generally a sheep, goat or rabbit, donkey, or more rarely of ruminants such as the calf) was replaced with a large canvas. The lower end of the bamboo cane (at the top of which was tied a bow or other embellishment) was inserted into a hole at the center of the membrane, the two were tied tightly and stared at the whole on top of the speakers.

The guitar is a musical instrument flying home educated adopted here in Calabria and modified and adapted in the farmer's elongated shape, similar to the baroque guitar, and it seems that his "body" of an eight designs, with the soundboard and the keyboard are placed on an equal footing. The soundboard has a "dividing" on which you go to place a very low bridge that keeps the curtain cords near the same table, the bottom is curved and the bands are often very high in the center of the hole is a cylindrical rosette , for decoration of various materials according to the skill and taste of the manufacturer, often of cylindrical shape which then goes back to the height of the soundboard to finish in a flower, many tools whose features are most certainly popular, the edges bands, the "ears", three small holes made to make the basis for that guy get fit bands where there was the availability of one form or the ability to costruirla.La diffusion is indeed limited to the province of Cosenza and in part, to that of Catanzaro. At the latter is more often a derivative of the door, armed with four strings and a 'Scordino, "which is a rope attached to a" piruozzulu "that comes up in the middle of the keyboard button in the seventh, the instrument shows frequently deeply piatto.L 'hypothesis elaboration of this instrument is probably justified by the fact that where there is a lack of facilities construction, production and repair of the instrument is entrusted to the musician himself or "artistic" carpenters, the repertoire Next, which did not involve processing large harmonics and tonal variations or special arrangements and is well combined with a simplified, responsive to the presence of a drone, as on the bagpipes though sharp patterns shared by the musical characteristics Community.These instrument may differ from the traditional model because each tool is the result of the artistic demands of the violin maker and musician and the strings are strictly 10, agreed to the following scheme MI - SI-SOL - RE - LA, creates just that kind of tuning a natural melody generated by the different string tension, which all have the same spessore.L 'use of the instrument has always been to accompany the singing, although there are numerous examples including instrumental deserves special mention as "a ciré tarantella" accompanied by mandolino.La capital centers of the construction of the guitar is flying Bisignano (CS), where he lives and works in the family De Bonis least since the eighteenth century and where they are active and Costantino Vincenzo De Bonis, it is likely that once were common in throughout the regional centers of production and musicians. Currently there are only minor centers for quality of the instruments even though many young luthiers are measured by its construction