Proms Family Music Intro: how to play the scraper!
Post categories: Proms, Proms 2009, Royal Albert Hall, behind the scenes, family, music
|19:34 UK Time, Monday, 10 August 2009
On the left: this is what a scraper looks like (also known as a güiro, calabazo, guayo, ralladera or rascador). To the right: being told when to hit, play and scrape by members of the Bournemouth
Symphony Orchestra! 
Comment number 1.
At 18:19 11th Aug 2009, Rofrano wrote:How wonderful to get three works by Respighi on consecutive nights - ending with the tumultuous Roman Festivals. What a pity that the TV broadcasts never thought to list the names of the individual items: it would have considerably enhanced everyone's appreciation of these pieces.
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Comment number 2.
At 16:56 12th Aug 2009, Reiner_Torheit wrote:I have a scraper, but I mostly use it on a barrel.
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