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Sign in to savethumb|200px| Castanets seller in Granada, [[Spain]] thumb|198px|Pierre-Auguste Renoir's 1909 painting Dancing girl with castanets Castanets, also known as clackers or palillos, are a percussion instrument (idiophonic), used in Spanish, Calé, Moorish, Ottoman, Greek, Italian, Mexican, Sephardic, Portuguese, Filipino, Brazilian, and Swiss music. In ancient Greece and ancient Rome there was a similar instrument called the crotalum.
Castanets, also known as clackers or palillos, are a percussion instrument used in music traditions across Spain, the Mediterranean, Latin America, and other regions around the world. They have been used since ancient times, with similar instruments called crotala appearing in ancient Greece and Rome.
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Key facts
- Instrument.name
- Castanets
- Instrument.image
- File:Castagnetten, BK-NM-11430-78.jpg
- Instrument.image_capt
- Castanets
- Instrument.background
- percussion
- Instrument.classification
- hand percussion
- Instrument.hornbostel_sachs
- 111.141
- Instrument.hornbostel_sachs_desc
- Directly struck concussive idiophone
- Instrument.related
- Crotalum, Zill
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Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- family of musical instruments
- Part of
- Hornbostel–Sachs
- Official name
- castagnette
- Image
- Castanuelas1.jpg
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- Castanets
- Hornbostel-Sachs classification
- 111.141
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