From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Candombe drums
Candombe drums
chico-repique-chico-piano, with the row behind having
repique-chico-piano-chico-repique and so on to the last
row.
Tamboriles are made of wood with animal skins that
are rope-tuned or fire-tuned minutes before the perfor-
mance. They are worn at the waist with the aid of a shoul-
der strap called a talig or talí and played with one stick
and one hand.
A key rhythmic figure in candombe is the clave (in 3-2
form). It is played on the side of the drum, a procedure
known as "hacer madera" (literally, "making wood").
Tambores de Candombe, "repique" drum, "piano" drum and Master Candombe drummers
"chico" drum. Among the most important and traditional Montevidean
rhythms are: Cuareim, Ansina y Cordon. There are sever-
The tambores de candombe or tamboriles are drums al master drummers who have kept Candombe alive un-
used in the playing of Candombe music of Uruguay. They interrupted for two hundred years. Some of highlights
are single skin headed and there are three sizes: piano are: in Ansina school: Wáshington Ocampo, Héctor
(bass range), repique (tenor range), and the chico (alto Suárez, Pedro "Perico" Gularte, Eduardo "Cacho"
range). The drums are made of wood and have a curved Giménez, Julio Giménez, Raúl "Pocho" Magariños, Rubén
barrel shape with its base very narrow. Quirós, Alfredo Ferreira, "Tito" Gradín,, Raúl "Maga" Ma-
gariños, Luis "Mocambo" Quirós, Fernando "Hurón" Sil-
Music and description va, Eduardo "Malumba" Gimenez, Alvaro Salas, Daniel
Gradín, Sergio Ortuño y José Luis Giménez.[1]
Candombe is performed by a group of drummers called
cuerda. tamboriles,
a cuerda The barrel-shaped drums, or tamboriles have
specific names according to their size and function: References
chico (small, high timbre, marks the tempo) [1] Candombe’s repique/Luis Jure University School of
repique (medium, syncopation and improvisation) Music, Montevideo Uruguay.
piano (large, low timbre, melody). • Beck, John (1994). Encyclopedia of Percussion. Garland.
An even larger drum, called bajo or bombo (very large, ISBN 978-0824047887.
very low timbre, accent on the fourth beat), was once
common but is now declining in use.
A cuerda at a minimum needs three drummers, one on External links
each part. A full cuerda will have 50-100 drummers, com- • You Tube video - Candombe music
monly with rows of seven or five drummers, mixing the
three types of drums. A typical row of five can be piano-
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