File puptcrit/puptcrit.0806, message 25


Date: Fri, 06 Jun 2008 07:28:28 -0400
From: Mary Horsley <mphorsley-AT-earthlink.net>
To: <puptcrit-AT-puptcrit.org>
Subject: Re: [Puptcrit] puppets as instruments


And in Appalachia, they are called "Limberjacks". I have one........


On 6/6/08 3:41 AM, "Mathieu René" <creaturiste-AT-primus.ca> wrote:

> Alan reminds me of traditionnal insturments we have here in Quebec, which,
> if not invented here, possibly originates from somewhere in France.
> 
> They are called "Gigueux" or "Bonhomme".
> They are simple dummies carved in wood with very loose leg and arm joints
> that rotate forward and backward.
> They have a stick in the back. They come with a dancing board, which looks a
> bit like a thinner cutting board.
> 
> To play them, you just sit partially on the board, make it go up and down
> with your hand, hold the dummy over the board with the feet hitting it, and
> let the wild dance begin!
> 
> These characters make a great raucous, and can and have been used as
> percussion instruments with a band.
> 
> Some historians say that the jigg dolls were invented to fill a need for
> enlivening a party, when dances became forbidden by the Clergy. Here also,
> the Church was all powerful for a while, and anything fun was considered a
> perversion or at the very least a distraction from a pious life.
> And once again, Puppets saved the Day!
> 
> Here's one link that talks about them.
> http://chrisbrady.itgo.com/jigdolls/jigdolls.htm
> 
> Reading the info there, I see it's more widely propagated than I thought.
> 
> 
> 
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Alan Cook" <alangregorycook-AT-msn.com>
> To: <puptcrit-AT-puptcrit.org>
> Sent: Friday, June 06, 2008 3:20 AM
> Subject: [Puptcrit] puppets as instruments
> 
> 
>> There ARE precedents for actual sound-producing puppets AND for puppets
>> which APPEAR to be making sounds (with help of a recoded track or live
>> music backstage).
>> 
>> Marionettes or rod puppets have incorporated vertically-positioned
>> xylophones, "played" by the puppet's hands. Other puppets have beaten
>> drums to produce sounds. Even tap dancing puppets have produced sounds.
>> 
>> Abstract puppets of metal cone-shapes have produced sounds.
>> 
>> But there always is room for variations.
>> 
>> And kazoos hav helped provide the ILLUSION that a puppet produced the
>> sound.
>> 
>> Sometimes there really is nothing new under the sun.
>> 
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