…used to make that squeaky sound heard in a lot of easy listening and Latin music? I love it, but not knowing what it is is doing my head in. You can hear it throughout much of Santana’s Stone Flower, off of their lovely album about caravanning.
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A cuica?
Thank you!
It’s a fun-looking contraption, to be sure.
That screen grab on the video looks like an intimate procedure from All Creatures Great And Small, involving a large ungulate and Tristrams right arm
There’s enough squeaking in your house as it is, missus.
I had heard that sound on Brazilian records for years and never knew what made it until I saw the drummer in Ron Carter’s band making it. I was astonished that it was a drum!
This is a great example:
Os Mutantes – She’s My Shoo Shoo
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nlBC56kDu5E
Appears to be a variant of this. The Rommelpot
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Rommelpot_Player
A friction drum! I like it!
A great example of the cuica on this track by Tom and Dito, as featured on the Mr Bongo compilation LP I won a few weeks back:
Would you STOP going on about that competition you won!!? We are all sick of hearing about it…. (Insert Emoji with tongue sticking out to show I’m only joking…)
Which one, though?đ
(It’s a top collection though, loadsa great tunes from around the globe – I believe the CD version has even more tracks. Highly recommended.)
The cuica was also used by Jerry Goldsmith on the soundtrack of the original Planet Of The Apes (listen around 2:57)
There’s a low one, I think, on Could You Be Loved. Used to make me and me sis chuckle a bit – a slightly monkeyish sound.
Whatâs the instrument at the beginning of this song ?
Andy Williams – Cant get used to losing you – Love this.
https://youtu.be/JZgW8T2IIqU
Sounds like pizzicato strings + bass.
As sampled by Beyoncé on Hold Up (skip to 1.40):
I’ll translate. ‘Pizzicato’ means ‘plucked’. And he’s right I think.