lagerphone

(ˈlɑːɡəˌfəʊn)

(Instruments) music an Australian percussion instrument made from bottle-tops on a stick which the player rattles or hits

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lagerphone - an Australian percussion instrument used for playing bush music; a long stick with bottle caps nailed loosely to it; played by hitting it with a stick or banging it on the ground

percussion instrument, percussive instrument - a musical instrument in which the sound is produced by one object striking another

Australia, Commonwealth of Australia - a nation occupying the whole of the Australian continent; Aboriginal tribes are thought to have migrated from southeastern Asia 20,000 years ago; first Europeans were British convicts sent there as a penal colony

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Proof that the worlds of beer and music go hand in hand comes in the form of the lagerphone, a homemade instrument beloved of folk musicians.

Beerest and dearest; Lagerphones, the ultimate home brew & keeping the family name alive... quench your thirst for ale facts

Since then, instrumentation has included ukuleles, guitars (acoustic and electric), violin, banjo, harmonica, woodwind, electric keyboards, saxophone, tea-chest bass, drums, and an island version of the percussive 'lagerphone', known as a 'swizzle stick'.

Hearing the Call: Music and Social History on Lord Howe Island

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