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| 15:25 Jun 19, 2015 |
| Spanish to English translations [PRO] Art/Literary - Music | |||||||
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|  Selected response from: James Coil United States Local time: 16:07 | ||||||
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| 3 +2 | (bass) slap-o-phone / plosive aerophone |
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| 4 | contratubophone |
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contratubophone Explanation: It's a made-up name, so you should simply anglicize it. At the moment the English word gets no Google hits, but hopefully, as a result of this question, it will now get one :-) |
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peer agreement (net): +2(bass) slap-o-phone / plosive aerophone Explanation: Name doesn't exist in English? Au contraire. Read it and weep, as they say: http://www.scribd.com/doc/15640992/Bass-Slapophone-Building-... This appears to be an existing type of instrument known as a slap-o-phone or perhaps slap-o-fone, made from various lengths of PVC or even cardboard pipes/tubes with one open end slapped with a paddle or the bare hand to produce its sound. Try this search link: http://www.google.com/search?client=safari&rls=en&q=slap-o-p... You can click on the image version to see various examples, sometimes spelled without the hyphens. You can even see an example of the slightly rarer bass slap-o-phone here: https://sites.google.com/site/blscohen/home/bass-slapophone Although it seems as though technically a bass slap-o-phone should have one end of the pipes closed to product the lower pitches: http://www.scribd.com/doc/15640992/Bass-Slapophone-Building-... Sorry Charles and Phil, but the asker's contratubófono ain't nothin' but a good ol' slap-o-phone. BTW, no, I hadn't already heard of this. I had a hunch and tried a search for pipe-o-phone... I also included "plosive aerophone" just to cover my bases, since apparently this is sort of the more general technical term for this type of instrument. See: https://windworld.com/products-page/books-cds/slap-tubes-and... -------------------------------------------------- Note added at 1 hr (2015-06-19 17:21:29 GMT) -------------------------------------------------- I just found this video too, and since in this case the name "slap tubes" is applied, I guess I better officially add that term just to cover all my bases (again). If anyone thinks this instrument is a joke, they should watch the video at this link. Notice the convoluted pipework below the "keyboard". http://makezine.com/2010/12/01/theyre-called-slap-tubes/ -------------------------------------------------- Note added at 6 hrs (2015-06-19 22:06:09 GMT) -------------------------------------------------- By the way, in retrospect I realize that the way I wrote this answer was a bit cheeky, as the British might say, but it seemed like kind of a whimsical subject and it came along at the end of a long day/week. However, I wasn't trying to offend any of the previous answerers. To me, the fact that I went so far as to use the phrase "au contraire" sort of indicates a tongue-in-cheek tone from the beginning, but that may be my own cultural bias. |
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