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The ferrinho (in
A ferrinho is depicted on the back of the Cape Verdean 1,000 escudos note issued since 2015.
Listening example
of Funaná music featuring a ferrinho and an accordion (From
a report in German about a project to document capverdian rhythms) Idiophones Cape Verdean musical instruments {{Idiophone-instrument-stub
Cape Verdean Creole
Cape Verdean Creole is a Portuguese-based creole language spoken on the islands of Cape Verde. It is also called or by its native speakers. It is the native creole language of virtually all Cape Verdeans and is used as a second language by t ...
ferrinhu ) is a musical instrument, more precisely a scraped idiophone
An idiophone is any musical instrument that creates sound primarily by the vibration of the instrument itself, without the use of air flow (as with aerophones), strings (chordophones), membranes (membranophones) or electricity ( electroph ...
. It is made up by a metal bar (generally of iron) that is scraped by another metal object. The player holds the bar vertically, with its lower end in the palm of one hand and the upper end leaning against the shoulder. With the other hand, the player uses a metallic object, held horizontally, to scrape the bar with up-and-down movements. A custom-made ''ferrinho'' is usually 90 centimeters long, with a straight-angle section to ease handling.
The ''ferrinho'' is used to mark the rhythm in funaná
The ''funaná'' is a music and dance genre from Cape Verde. ''Funaná'' is an accordion-based music. The rhythm is usually provided by the '' ferrinho'' much like the use of washboards in zydeco, the saw in Caribbean ripsaw music, the scrape ...
, a musical genre in Cape Verde.
It is believed that the name “''ferrinho''” is an adaptation of “''ferrinhos''”, that is the name by which the triangle
A triangle is a polygon with three edges and three vertices. It is one of the basic shapes in geometry. A triangle with vertices ''A'', ''B'', and ''C'' is denoted \triangle ABC.
In Euclidean geometry, any three points, when non- colline ...
is known in popular music in Portugal. In spite of the name, the ferrinho is more similar to instruments like the '' güiro'' (scraped idiophone) than the triangle (directly struck idiophone).
Depictions
A ferrinho is depicted on the back of the Cape Verdean 1,000 escudos note issued since 2015.
Further reading
*''Os Instrumentos Musicais em Cabo Verde'' (Brito, Margarida; Centro Cultural Português: Praia – Mindelo, 1998) * ''Relatório Diagnóstico'' (Direcção Geral de Animação Cultural: Praia, 1988) - survey about musicians and musical instruments existing in Cape Verde * ''Kab Verd Band
''Kap Verd Band'' or ''Kab Verd Band'' (Portuguese: ''Banda de Cabo Verde'', English: ''Cape Verdean Bands'') is a music history book published in 2006 by Cape Verdean journalist and investigator Carlos Filipe Gonçalves. It was published by the ...
'' ( Gonçalves, Carlos Filipe; Instituto do Arquivo Histórico Nacional: Praia, 2006)
External links
Listening example
of Funaná music featuring a ferrinho and an accordion (From
a report in German about a project to document capverdian rhythms) Idiophones Cape Verdean musical instruments {{Idiophone-instrument-stub