Musical Spoons

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The playing of spoons" originated in Ireland as "playing the bones" in which
the convex sides of a pair of sheep rib bones were rattled in the same way as spoons.
In the United States spoons as an instrument are associated with American folk music, minstrelsy, and jug and spasm bands. These musical genres make use of everyday objects as instruments, such as the washboard and the jug
Spoons are used as a makeshift percussion instrument (more specifically) an
idiophone related to castanets.



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Learn how to play the spoons in less then 10 minutes.

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Some spoon facts

Spoons are often used in ethnic Russian music and are known as lozhki

Sylvester McCoy, who played the seventh incarnation of Doctor Who is an exellent spoon player.

In 1994 the Seattle Grunge band Soundgarden had a hit with their song "Spoonman" that features a spoons performance by street artist Artis the Spoonman.

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