{"id":3470,"date":"2025-01-31T13:46:24","date_gmt":"2025-01-31T12:46:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/kastagnette.com\/en\/?p=3470"},"modified":"2026-03-12T22:12:09","modified_gmt":"2026-03-12T21:12:09","slug":"castanet-knot","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kastagnette.com\/en\/castanet-knot\/","title":{"rendered":"Castanet knot"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Again and again I am asked about the best knot for the cords of our castanets. Well, I have 2 variations:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Castanet knot I for concert castanets.<\/strong><br>This knot is quicker to adjust, so during a concert piece I can regulate the tension of the cord in a short break: with the cord that forms the knot you loosen the tension and with the other cord you tighten the cord.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Castanet knot II for castanets in dance<\/strong><br>With this knot I have better stability, the knot doesn&#8217;t come untied so easily. But to adjust it I always need both hands (or one hand and the teeth: hold the cord that forms the knot with the teeth and move the knot with the hand).<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>By the way: I mark the cord that forms the knot and therefore fits tightly with a small coloured sewing thread. That way I can quickly see where to pull and how.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Here are two videos on my YouTube channel. (The videos are in German.)<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-block-embed-youtube wp-embed-aspect-16-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<iframe title=\"Kastagnettenknoten I\" width=\"1170\" height=\"658\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/W_ziFLASuY0?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-block-embed-youtube wp-embed-aspect-16-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<iframe title=\"Kastagnettenknoten II\" width=\"1170\" height=\"658\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/3CzFnOANVZE?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Again and again I am asked about the best knot for the cords of our castanets. Well, I have 2 variations: Castanet knot I for concert castanets.This knot is quicker to adjust, so during a concert piece I can regulate the tension of the cord in a short break: with the cord that forms the <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":3469,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[6,34],"tags":[7,8,30],"class_list":["post-3470","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-blog","category-video","tag-castanets","tag-castanetsblog","tag-information"],"acf":[],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kastagnette.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3470","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/kastagnette.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/kastagnette.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kastagnette.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kastagnette.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3470"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/kastagnette.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3470\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3472,"href":"https:\/\/kastagnette.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3470\/revisions\/3472"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kastagnette.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3469"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kastagnette.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3470"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kastagnette.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3470"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kastagnette.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3470"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}