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Ratchet (instrument)

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cog when the handle turns. Alternatively, smaller ratchets are sometimes held still or mounted and the handle turned rapidly by the player. The mounted ratchets allow for greater control of the duration and timing of the sound. This allows the ratchet to be used like a snare drum, placing sustained rolls in precise durations of time. Dynamics are controlled by the rate at which the ratchet is rotated.
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The player holds the handle and swings the whole mechanism around. The momentum makes the board click against the gearwheel, producing a clicking and rattling noise. A popular design consists of a thick wooden cog wheel attached to a handle and two wooden flanges that alternately hit the teeth of the
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is about the size of a breadbox and consists of a wooden frame into which are fastened four or five stiff but flexible wooden tines fastened to one side of the frame; the other ends of the tines are struck in rapid succession by a
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In the 18th and 19th centuries, a policeman's rattle was used by British and Australian policemen to summon assistance. They were used to warn of poison gas attack in the trenches of the
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is a "cog rattle", producing a sound that is enough of a "croak" to have derived the folk name of the instrument from the Italian name of the common tree-frog. The
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Police rattle from the late 19th century. Used by early police officers in Melbourne, to call for assistance or sound warnings... Later replaced by a whistles.
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Karl Peinkofer and Fritz Tannigel, Handbook of Percussion Instruments, (Mainz, Germany: Schott, 1976), 152-153.
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Police whistles came much later; the early Victorian constable would have carried a small wooden rattle.
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Up until the early 1970s, this type of rattle was commonly used by fans at
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family and a warning/signaling device. It operates on the principle of the
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that is turned by a crank handle mounted on the side of the frame.
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asks for one in the first movement of his orchestral work
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Index

Matraca
Matraka

Classification
Idiophone
Hornbostel–Sachs classification
Related instruments
Derkach
musical instrument
percussion
ratchet device
gragger
Yiddish
Judaism
rapach
raganella
Grager
Yiddish
Purim
Haman
Megillah
Richard Strauss
Till Eulenspiegel's Merry Pranks
Arnold Schoenberg
Gurre-Lieder
Respighi
Pini di Roma
Tchaikovsky
The Nutcracker
Ravel

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