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

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I further – just as another example – also seem to notice the (subtle) use of the Flexatone in Culture’s 1996 album One Stone, as part of wider percussion. However, in Germany, the flexatone was banned, along with other instruments like cowbell, as it was deemed alien to the German spirit. The sound itself – despite its use - of the Flexatone, kind of a glissando bell, may not seem traditionally African to some, although metal “bells” or scrapers are used since long in African traditional music.

Glissando, said of the Flexatone sound, means in “Italianized French” nothing else than “gliding”, by the way. While the instrument has a very limited dynamic range, volume can be controlled by how vigorously or delicately the player shakes the Flexatone.Because of the size, it may be easier when using with children if an adult holds the Flexatone while the child applies the pressure to the blade as their hand will be too small to hold it and play it. The history of the Flexatone is quite remarkable, as after it got patented in New York, the US in 1924, it soon got associated with Jazz music, where it – as some put it – could “make jazz jazzier”. The player then shakes the instrument with a trembling movement which causes the beaters to strike the sides of the metal sheet. Tarrus Riley, Chuck Fender, Richie Spice, Lutan Fyah, Queen Ifrica, Iba Mahr, Morgan Heritage etcetera etcetera), and the Riddims made for their songs, may have used the Flexatone.

While shaking the handle, apply pressure to the blade with the thumb which give a high/low wah-wah effect.I listened and listen quite some Reggae, and keep quite up to date, so a sensible list that is illustrative is quite possible. It is still possible – and useful - to draw some conclusions from this general analysis of Flexatone use, as part of percussion in Reggae. Dub Reggae, as more instrumental form, is largely derived from reggae since the 1970s, so if a vocal song had that Flexatone already, it appears in the (remixed, instrumental) Dub version of it. The technical storage or access is strictly necessary for the legitimate purpose of enabling the use of a specific service explicitly requested by the subscriber or user, or for the sole purpose of carrying out the transmission of a communication over an electronic communications network.