Flamenco Castanets & Their Sounds

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Hi! Thank you for visiting expertvillage.com, my name is Yvette Parrish. Some average castanets which is a percussion instrument that flamenco dancers use. Kind of the same beat as a drum when you use your drum or when you stomp your foot to a beat, what you’re doing is a percussion instrument. So what I’m going to do, the castanets come in a pair and they have a knot on one side if you can see and there’s a knot on one side and then on the side it’s just a loop. Most castanets some castanets on all of them have a marking, this one says R which is for the right hand and this one says L for the left hand. They have a little bit of a different sound to them. The right has a little bit of a lighter chirpy sound and the left hand usually has a deeper sound. The left one I kind of remember it this way it’s kind of like your heartbeat, you’re doing all the fancy work with your right and when you use your left hand it’s kind of like your heartbeat so it’s a little deeper of a sound. So if you don’t have a little R or a little L on your castanets listen to them and the one that’s deeper would be your left hand castanet.

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