Re: Slide

[Ramiro Musotto <ramirose@ism.com.br>]

Title: Re: Slide

> Ramiro,
> That sounds awesome. Do you have mp3's to
> listen to? :)
>  
> David
>
>  
> On 6/15/06, Ramiro Musotto <ramirose@ism.com.br>
> wrote:
> > You said berimbau .
> > That's my main instrument .
> > I do live looping with a lot of berimbaus playing together at
> > different pitches .
> > regards
> > Ramiro
> >
> > >   At one tme I did graduate work in ethnomusicaolgy
> > ,and my area of
> > >focus was the African roots of American music. The Diddey Bow,is
> > not
> > >a slide  it's  single
> > string  streched taught on a stick( or
> > >sometimes attached to the side of a building) and played
> > >percussively.It's called berimbau in brazil and there are many
> > >variations all over Africa,commonly adding a gourd
> > resonator,which
> > >can be closed and opened by pressing against ,and moving from
> > the
> > >body,causing a dynamic and pitch variation  further
> > which adds
> > >rythmic epressiveness.Hugh Tracy's book on southern African
> > >instruments details one version which is ony played by Women
> > ,who
> > >move the gourd on and off a breast.The only instrument I ever
> > heard
> > >of that could physically only be played by one
> > gender.  There are
> > >also versions where the string is connected to a very large
> > stick
> > >which is rooted into the ground and a hole in the ground
> > resonates
> > >the vibration.