Here is a fantastic piece of footage, evidently taken from a movie, of Jackson Do Pandeiro and Almira Castilho singing and dancing. I don't really understand the culture here, but it's fascinating.
Incidentally, I found this on a Brazilian blog called 'Forro em Vinil' which specialises in posting mp3s of out of print forro records. My recommendation is to search for the 78rpm records.
Link: Forro em Vinil
The last selection went down well, so here's a second set.
See Wikipedia for a description of the cat piano or Katzenklavier.
Link: Cat Piano on Wikipedia
I was sent these pictures of instruments that 'Chapi Chapo & les petites musiques de pluie' use. The music is very nice, ghostly cinematic sound - like a cross between Tunng and Yann Tiersann. I thoroughly recommend checking out their myspace site.
Link: Chapi Chapo on Myspace
Link: Chapi Chapo homepage
I've featured silent, practice piano keyboards a few times on Squeezytunes. And these have usually generated a fair amount of interest. I didn't know of any current maker of these dummy instruments until Sue left a comment on an old thread here.
There's a piano maker in Cornwall, England called Pinkham Pianos that will make you a five octave dummy keyboard. No prices are given, but their uprights and grand pianos look competitive.
Link: Pinkham Pianos Dummy Practice Keyboard
Thanks: to Sue
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