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LP Latin Percussion Flex-a-Tone Standard LP1-5

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Aside from jazz and Reggae, the flexatone was also used in classical music, in pop recordings, as well as in other genres.

Let’s say that the definition of percussion in this case is all rhythmic instruments outside the (trap) drum kit/set, so commonly used now in modern pop music. The metal plate of the flexatone is hit alternatively on each side by wooden or rubber beaters or balls that are attached to a clock spring.

While shaking the handle, apply pressure to the blade with the thumb which give a high/low wah-wah effect. It cannot be pretended that its scope or range are wide, but such as it is, it is quite irreplaceable. Not much use in repeating a (or even several) Wikipedia article(s) here, of course, which are publicly available to all already. The player then shakes the instrument with a trembling movement which causes the beaters to strike the sides of the metal sheet. I listened and listen quite some Reggae, and keep quite up to date, so a sensible list that is illustrative is quite possible.

Compositional and Orchestrational Trends in the Orchestral Percussion Section Between the Years of 1960-2009", p.

Elsewhere, they are more in the groove, and part of a percussive, even polyrhythmic, whole, with other percussion instruments. Just as one more possible sound and instrument available for these old- and new-generation of Jamaican percussionists. The player holds the flexatone in one hand with the palm around the wire frame and the thumb on the free end of the spring steel. The Wikipedia article on the Flexatone describes it as one such later invention, patented first in the 1920s in Britain and soon after the US, and used early on as “funny sound effect”, for theatrical use rather, but also in jazz music circles.

Relatively most of these idiophones are “struck” in one way or the other, and on one of these I am going to focus now: the “Flexatone” (also spelled as Flex-a-tone).I am pleased to notice, anyway, that the younger percussionists in current Jamaican music, continue the varied percussion (drums and idiophones) use of their veteran predecessors since the 1970s, like Uzziah “Sticky” Thompson, Noel “Scully” Simms, Bongo Herman (Davis) and others. Vivian Fine owned a flexatone, [31] and used flexatone music in compositions such as The Race of Life (1937). As well as that, it was part of the censorship and attack at jazz, a genre that most Nazis detested. Consenting to these technologies will allow us to process data such as browsing behaviour or unique IDs on this site.

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