Txalaparta
Txalaparta [ tʃala'paɾta ] is a Basque percussion instrument made of a set of three or more wooden sound sticks placed over two cross members, which are struck by two musicians with two sticks held vertically each. The bars are tuned to different pitches, but the focus is on the percussive aspect. In terms of instruments, the txalaparta is a surcharge idiophone , the shape of which corresponds to a spar xylophone . The 50 cm long sticks are called makilak , [ ma'kiʎak ] in Basque .
Playing Txalaparta often accompanies other instruments in Basque folk music, such as the trikitixa , a diatonic accordion .
Individual strikers were formerly known to the Christians of the Orient as naqus and are still occasionally used instead of bells as a call to worship in the Orthodox churches of Eastern Europe - semantron in Greece and toaca in Romania.
The instrument is also used improvisationally in music therapy contexts and in 2019 received a commendation in the New Therapy Instruments competition organized by the German Music Therapy Society in cooperation with Musikmesse Frankfurt .
Individual evidence
- ↑ New instruments for music therapy awarded. Retrieved August 17, 2019
