Ramallosa  Musical

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.

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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] .

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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.

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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.

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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 .

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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) .

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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.

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