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RE: Question for zata (with rambling... (in reply to Tomás Jiménez)
Tomás, I just saw your message, sorry to have seemed to be ignoring you.
I haven't the slightest idea about what you ask, it's the kind of information I let Mr. Google store for me in case I ever need it, because my head barely has enough room for the really important things, like compás or cantes.
"Why in folk types?" If the two main branches of flamenco are gitano and andaluz, then castanets have always been common in andaluz forms, but not in gitano forms (although anything goes).
Speaking of "anything goes"...I just read an interview with Paco and he repeats the fusioneer's line: "they didn't used to let us deviate from the norm, everyone had to play the same thing". I've been in flamenco for about 50 years, and don't recall ever having been told what kind of flamenco to do. Ever. In fact, it was the freedom to create on the spur of the moment that most attracted me to flamenco in the first place. If that freedom was better used by Paco than by others, that simply means he's a genius. But we already knew that.
As far as I have read castanets were originally sea shells, possibly clams used to accent beats in moorish dancing...so the idea is originally moorish. Castanets or Castañuelos carved out of wood are Spanish in origin and so named after Castañas or chestnuts (which they resemble with their shiny wooden appearence)
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