Talerschwingen

The Talerschwingen or Taler roles is a game that his place in the Swiss has folk music. When swinging a coin , a five- franc coin is thrown into a clay conical milk basin, whereby the five- franc coin must have been minted before 1968 (or in 1969) (silver coin) in order to achieve the desired sound. The player tries to run the five-legged lamb with slight twisting movements of the left hand on its edge along the edge of the pool, but without the coin falling on the bottom of the bowl. The sound generated by the vessel and the rotating coin correspond to a friction idiophone .

A Gspil (ensemble) consists of three bowls of different sizes. As a rule, these should be in tune with “b”, “f sharp” and “f”, from smallest to largest (cf. website of Rémy Schroeter). The Talerschwingen comes from Eastern Switzerland , especially from the Appenzellerland and Toggenburg .

literature

• Brigitte Bachmann-Geiser : The folk musical instruments of Switzerland. Atlantis, Zurich 1981, sv Open Gefässrasseln, pp. 32–34.

Web links

• Talerschwingen according to Rémy Schroeter (en français)