534i4: Scraped

534i4: Scraped

Description

With scraped idiophones, the sound is produced by scraping a stick over a material which has a notched or ridged surface. It produces a series of short clicks or taps as the stick is scraped over the ridges. The instrument may have a resonator.

Examples:

Washboards, cog rattles, animal bones, sticks

Context for this page:

Ocm module: Scraped
In ocm module: Idiophones
In ocm module: Musical instruments
In modular book: Expanded ethnomusicology categories for the Outline of Cultural Materials, by Kenneth R. Hollingsworth
In bookshelf: Anthropology

This page is an extract from the LinguaLinks Library, Version 3.5, published on CD-ROM by SIL International, 1999. [Ordering information.]

Page content last modified: 21 March 1999