What is this instrument called in English?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QXUC1Z4PFcA
Hi! In this TV-show, at 14:54, they talk about an instrument. It's a Portuguese show and the host of the show says it is called "reco-reco" (which is the Portuguese name) and right after that she says the English name. Does she say "reckons-reckons"? I have googled it, and I have googled other spellings: "recons-recons". I don't find any search results no matter spelling.
So, what is the English name and spelling for this instrument?
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reco-reco
The presenter was wrong to try to translate it into English. You couldn't find 'reckons reckons' - or anything like it - because the term doesn't exist. We apparently call it a 'reco-reco' in English, just as you do in Portuguese.
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1) This instrument doesn't exist in the United States, so we would call it by its untranslated name, reco-reco.
2) Certain kinds and styles of music, originating in the common people, such as "jug band music," use a similar kind of rhythm produced on a "washboard." Washboards were actually used for scrubbing clothes clean, but became repurposed into improvised instruments.
I would never call a reco-reco "a washboard." I might describe one by saying "a reco-reco--a Brazilian folk instrument that sounds like a washboard."
https://youtu.be/D4BcfkKLgpY?t=7
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Thank you, Blair!
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Thank you very much Blair!
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From my initial probing online it looks like the English term for it is just a straight use of 'Reco Reco'. Because it has such a cultural origin it would work perfectly without a translation. I suppose it would be like asking 'What's the English word for Caravel? ... or Bossa Nova? ... or Fado?'
Hope that helps :)
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