Instrumentos Tradicionales Ibéricos Instrumentos Tradicionales Ibéricos

AEROPHONES I

AEROPHONES II

These instruments are either those that produce the sound due to the vibration of the air, through a bevel, a mouthpiece, a simple reed or a double one.

Click on the images to enlarge them

ALBOKA - Foto cortesía de David Ozkoidi

Alboka: Single reed aerophone. It have a mouthpiece of cow horn, two sound tubes of cane with 3 and 5 holes also housed in a wooden support and a pavilion of resonance of horn. When hearing it, it can seem a bagpipe for the continuity of the sound, but this continuity takes place thanks to the difficult technique of the continuous blow. Limited to the Basque Country, and more specifically to Biscay, at the moment it is obtaining a great diffusion in a large part of Euskadi.

 

 

 

GAITA SANABRESA      GAITA DE FOLE - http://www.terravista.pt/Guincho/1072/instrum.html      GAITA MIRANDESA DE TRAS OS MONTES- http://www.terravista.pt/IlhadoMel/2940/

Escucha como suena en RealAudio

Gaita de Fole: Double and simple reed aerophone. It consists of two sound tubes, one is a long tube or "hornión" (drone) with a simple reed that gives an accompaniment note and the other one is the "puntero" (chanter), resemblance to a folk oboe and with double reed that makes the melody. Both tubes go together to the "fole" (air store), of kid skin, using the paws to place the mouthpiece to inflate it and the hornión. The fol is an air store, giving to the instrument the characteristic continuous sound. The "fole" bagpipe is from Zamora, areas of León and the Portuguese district of Tras os Montes, being to each other all these bordering districts. The construction and tuning of the fole bagpipe is more archaic and fewer evolved that that of the Galician and Asturian ones, prevailing the minor mode in its tunes. They are tuned in lower tones and the deposit of air is usually bigger since mainly in the district of Sanabria, where is common that the piper sings at the same time that he plays .

 

 

GAITA GALLEGA

Escucha como suena en RealAudio

Gaita gallega: Very similar instrument with the previous one, but much more evolved and sophisticated. It can be completely tuned in diverse tones, being the most common the Bb, C and D.   besides the "punteiro" (chanter) and the "roncón" (drone), it usually has a "ronqueta" (little drone) and more rarely a "ronquilla" (more little drone), giving several octaves under the natutal tone to accompany the melody of the "punteiro". The "fol" or air store, is smaller than previous bagpipes. It is the better known and extended bagpipe of the peninsula, even ending up displacing to other autochthonous bagpipes in other regions, like it was the case of the "gaita de fole" in Castile-León and the Aragonese "gaita de boto". It can be founded in Galicia, in folk groups as well as in bands of bagpipes and drums. It is also common to see it in the rest of the peninsula in some military bands .

 

 

Gaita de boto: Another bagpipe, but in this case from Aragon, near the French border with Spain. It was about to get lost in the forgetfulness in the seventies of this century, but for some years, thanks to the investigation work, it has been possible to save and to popularize it in this region. It consists in a melodic tube or "clarín" (chanter) with double reed and two accompaniment drones, one longer or "bordón" and another minor or "bordoneta". Both drones usually go recovered with snake skin. When playing this bagpipe type, the big drone doesn't lean on on the shoulder, because it passes below the armpit. The bag is cover with a "vestido" resemblance to a skirt .

GAITA DE BOTO

 

 

ACORDEON DIATONICO   Escucha como suena en RealAudio    CONCERTINA

Acordeón diatónico: Free simple reed and indirect blow aerophone. The sound takes place when passing the air taken place by a bellows through some reeds that it goes selecting a keyboard of buttons. Depending of if the air is expelled or it is aspired, oneself pulsation on the button gives two different notes. It was an invention of principles of passed century and that quickly it extended for all Europe, ending up displacing to the own autochthonous instruments. In Spain there was a famous factory "El Cid" in Valencia. Besides the melody, they can be made in agreement of accompaniment, reason for which it quickly became in the favorite instrument of parties and meetings. Another fact that put him in fashion was that it accompanied as any other one the dances "agarraos" (you waltz, mazurkas, pasodobles...) at first of the XX century, with what was won the angers of the most puritan sectors and conservators of the society. In the it reached great popularity in the interpretation of the traditional dances, always accompanied by the tambourine, getting the duet formed by both the name of "trikitixa", being used this names later on to denominate alone to the accordion, which possesses big virtuosos at the moment. More portable  is the concertina, of similar characteristics that the accordion but smaller, used mainly by sailors, puppeteers, etc ...and very much less extended the accordion.

 

 

ACORDEON CROMATICO

Acordeón cromático: Free simple reed and indirect blow aerophone. Similar to the diatónic accordion, the sound takes place when passing the air taken place by a bellows through some reeds that he/she goes selecting a keyboard of buttons. The big differences with the diatonic accordion are the incorporation of the piano keyboard for the melody and that oneself pulsation of a key always gives a single note, catch or come unfastened air. To the easiest being of playing that the previous one and also to have an adaptive completely chromatic scale to any song, dance in fashion or tune, displaced almost totally, to the diatonic accordion. In the Basque Country both cohabit. In Portugal it is a very used instrument in the whole country.

 

AEROPHONES I

AEROPHONES II

  HOME  

Home