Clapstick
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Clapsticks, also spelt clap sticks and also known as Template:Langr, Template:Langr, clappers, musicstick or just stick, are a traditional Australian Aboriginal instrument. They serve to maintain rhythm in voice chants, often as part of an Aboriginal ceremony.<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref>
They are a type of drumstick, percussion mallet or claves that belongs to the idiophone category. Unlike drumsticks, which are generally used to strike a drum, clapsticks are intended for striking one stick on another.
Origin and nomenclatureEdit
In northern Australia, clapsticks would traditionally accompany the didgeridoo, and are called {{#invoke:Lang|lang}} or {{#invoke:Lang|lang}} by the Yolngu people of north-east Arnhem Land in the Northern Territory of Australia.
Boomerang clapsticksEdit
Boomerang clapsticks are similar to regular clapsticks but they can be shaken for a rattling sound or be clapped together.
TechniqueEdit
The usual technique employed when using clapsticks is to clap the sticks together to create a rhythm that goes along with the song.
See alsoEdit
ReferencesEdit
External linksEdit
- A survey of traditional south-eastern Australian Indigenous music by Barry McDonald (book chapter)
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- Curkpatrick, Samuel. "Productive Ambiguity: Fleshing out the Bones in Yolŋu Manikay" Song" Performance, and the Australian Art Orchestra’s" Crossing Roper Bar"." Critical Studies in Improvisation/Études critiques en improvisation 9, no. 2 (2013)[1]
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