{"id":965,"date":"2024-12-10T16:02:22","date_gmt":"2024-12-10T15:02:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/juancardenas.es\/ktgt\/?p=965"},"modified":"2026-03-12T22:09:07","modified_gmt":"2026-03-12T21:09:07","slug":"idiophones","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kastagnette.com\/en\/idiophones\/","title":{"rendered":"Idiophones"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>The castanets belong to the <strong>idiophones<\/strong>, the <strong>self-toners<\/strong> or <strong>self-sounders<\/strong>. The instrument itself vibrates and does not need strings or a membrane to produce sounds. In the group of idiophones, <strong>castanets belong to the counter-strike instruments<\/strong> and can be found all over the world.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Probably <strong>the preforms of the castanets<\/strong> are the oldest instruments of mankind. Two sticks, stones, conch shells were used to beat rhythms, mostly in ritual dances. They were played in all cultures and on all continents.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>In Greece they were called<br><strong>Kr\u00f3talos<\/strong> (Greek crotos &#8211; pulse).<br>In Roman times and in Hispania (Latin name for the Iberian Peninsula).<br><strong>Crusmata<\/strong> (Latin crusma: a music accompanying played on a percussion instrument).<br>In Spain<br><strong>Casta\u00f1eta, Casta\u00f1uela or Palillo<\/strong> (little stick).<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>By the way: the rhythm with 2 spoons in Bavarian folklore is also an idiophone. And this practice of playing with spoons is also widespread all over the world.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>According to a Japanese legend, when music was invented, the gods themselves stroke the beat on them, on &#8216;<strong>the mother of all instruments<\/strong>&#8216;.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The castanets belong to the idiophones<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":3871,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[8],"class_list":["post-965","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-blog","tag-castanetsblog"],"acf":[],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kastagnette.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/965","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=965"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/kastagnette.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/965\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4975,"href":"https:\/\/kastagnette.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/965\/revisions\/4975"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kastagnette.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3871"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kastagnette.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=965"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kastagnette.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=965"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kastagnette.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=965"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}