World Music Safari - The Apache Violin
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- Опубліковано 2 жов 2024
- Greetings from World Music Safari. This ultra rare instrument is an Apache Violin sometimes called an Apache fiddle or tsii' edo'a'tl, "wood that sings". Near as I can tell it's at least fifty years old but could be upwards of eighty or more, I have no idea. My wife's parents used to work on an Apache reservation back in the early seventies and brought a few things back with them when they moved to Florida and this was one of them. It's a single stringed instrument and I have no idea how it's actually played since resources are pretty scarce about this fiddle. So I went with my best guess, put a light gauge string on it and went for it. I hope you enjoy checking it out as much as I enjoyed trying to figure it out. But I'm going to put this back into the collection as a conversation piece since I don't want to accidentally break it somehow.
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Wow! I have seen them as decoration but never thought about what it would sound like.
After doing a bit more digging I guess they really do only play one note as a drone and the performer sings over the top of the note. So like the movie "Amadeus" I'm playing too many notes. Ha.
Remarkable. I've never heard about an instrument like this one.
I expected something like a berimbau (and maybe it was played partly like that), but this one is different. More refined I'd say. The maker of such an instrument invested a lot of effort in the process. Maybe it was some kind of a copy and/or reflection to some stringed instruments of european origin, but it seems to be a mix of several types of musical tools, like flute, drum, fiddle (or violin).
Yeah I thought the same thing. Pretty amazing little instrument . I found out a bit more after doing this video and it is meant to just be a drone that someone can sing over. So it really does play only the one note. I kinda played too many notes. Ha! Anyway thanks for the comment. I don't actually have a Berimbau but that is certainly on my list.