6 x 6 " BRAZILIAN HANDMADE CUICA ALUMINUM SKIN NATURAL LEATHER HEAD PERCUSSION

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PROFESSIONAL 6" x 6" BRAZILIAN CUICA
ALUMINUM SKIN
NATURAL GOAT LEATHER HEAD
CUICA EM ALUMINIO REPUXADO - POLIDA
HANDMADE BY TORELLI MUSICAL
TUNE KEY INCLUDED
PROFESSIONAL PERCUSSION  MUSICAL INSTRUMENT
FOR SAMBA PAGODE CAPOEIRA AND MUCH MORE
HANDMADE IN BRAZIL
The drum head has a wood stem mounted in the center that extends down into the body of the drum.
The player takes his drum in one hand and then uses a damp piece of cloth.
To rub and twist up and down he wood stem.
This creates an amazing variety of sounds.
Cuíca (Portuguese pronunciation: ), or "kuweeca", is a   with a large pitch range, produced by changing tension on the head of the drum. Cuíca is Portuguese for a type of small opossum which is known to make a high-pitched sound. It is most often used in  music. The tone it produces has a high-pitched squeaky timbre. It has been called a 'laughing gourd' due to this sound. Many also claim that the cuica has a "monkey" sound.
The cuíca has a wooden stick fastened at one end inside the drum in the center of the drumhead. This stick is rosined and rubbed with a cloth. Changing the pressure on this stick produces the different pitches and timbres. The body of the cuíca is normally made of metal, gourd or synthetic material. It has a single head, normally 6 to 10 inches in diameter (15–25 cm), made of animal skin. A thin  stick is attached to the center of, and perpendicular to, the drum head, extending into the drum's interior. The instrument is held under one arm at chest height with the help of a shoulder strap. To play the cuíca, the musician rubs the stick up and down with a wet cloth held in one hand, using the fingers of the other hand to press down on the skin of the drum near the place where the stick is attached. The rubbing motion produces the sound and the pitch is increased or decreased by changing the pressure on the head.
The cuíca is used to accompany a variety of different folk and urban popular dances. For example, it may be part of the instrumental ensemble for the May dança de Santa Cruz or for the moçambique dramatic dance (bailado) in Minas Gerais. It also is used in Holy Cross dances and processions and in performances of São Paulo rural sambas.
The cuíca plays an important rhythmic role in samba music of all kinds. It is particularly notable as a fixture of 's  groups, which feature entire sections of cuíca players. It is so commonly used in radio-oriented samba music that in the absence of a cuíca player, Brazilian singers or other musicians imitate the sound of the cuíca with their voices. An example of this imitation can be heard on the intro part of 's version of  (from the "Dizzy on the French Riviera" album, 1965) composed by . Along with samba, the cuíca is one of the mainly used Brazilian instruments in jazz-rock, free jazz, and Latin jazz.
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