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Spoons are often used in ethnic Russian music and are known as lozhki (Russian: Ло́жки [plural]; Pronunciation: Ложка ⓘ [singular]). The use of spoons for music dating at least from the 18th century (and probably older). [1] Typically, three or more wooden spoons are used. The convex surfaces of the bowls are struck together in ...
Metal spoons may be used instead, as is common in the United States, known as "playing the spoons". The technique probably arrived in the U.S. via Irish and other European immigrants, and has a history stretching back to ancient China, Egypt, Greece, and Rome.
This led to the development of Jug bands which used jugs, spoons, and washboards to provide the rhythm. [2] Jug bands became popular in the 1920s. Washboard Doc, Washboard Willie, and Washboard Sam were famous players. [3] The frottoir, also called a Zydeco rub-board, is a mid-20th
Spoon: Greece, Russia, Turkey Unpitched 111.14 Idiophone Steelpan: Trinidad & Tobago Pitched 111.241.12 and 111.241.22 Idiophone [7] Also known as steel drum: Stomp box: Unpitched 111.24 Idiophone Stone marimba: Pitched Idiophone Lithophone Suikinkutsu: Japan Surdo: Brazil Unpitched 211.212.1 Membranophone Suspended cymbal: Unpitched 111.24 ...
A jug band is a band employing a jug player and a mix of conventional and homemade instruments. These homemade instruments are ordinary objects adapted to or modified for making sound, like the washtub bass, washboard, spoons, bones, stovepipe, jew's harp, and comb and tissue paper.
The band was formed in Austin in October 1993 by Daniel and Eno. Critics have described the band's musical style as rock and roll, [6] [7] post-punk, [7] and art rock. [8] [9] Spoon released their debut studio album, Telephono, in 1996 through Matador Records. Their next full-length album, A Series of Sneaks, was released in 1998 through ...
Spoons is a Canadian new wave band, formed in Burlington, Ontario in 1979. They recorded several Canadian chart hits between 1982 and 1989, and in 1983, they were nominated for Most Promising Group of the Year at the Juno Awards .
Metis fiddling can be described as the incorporation of First Nations, Scottish, and French-Canadian rhythms, but with a unique Metis beat. [2] David Chartrand (president of the Manitoba Métis Foundation) was interviewed in a 2006 documentary by John Barnard, and emphasizes that the Métis fiddle tradition is an oral tradition [3] which cannot be taught in school.