bocas superiores
English translation: upper openings
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| Spanish to English translations [PRO] Art/Literary - Music / Musical instruments | |||||||
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|  Selected response from: Charles Davis Spain Local time: 10:06 | ||||||
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| 4 +3 | upper openings |
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| 3 | heads |
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heads Explanation: That's what the playing surface is called. |
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peer agreement (net): +3upper openings Explanation: George is quite right that the playing surface of a drum is called the head, but strictly the head (consisting of the skin and a frame to hold it) is fitted onto the opening of the tube. You couldn't say "the heads (those with the larger diameter), because there is only one head on each tube. I think the word you want here is "opening": "The conga drum was brought to Cuba by African slaves and was first constructed from a hollowed-out trunk with a hide membrane nailed onto the upper opening" Bloomsbury Encyclopedia of Popular Music of the World, Volume 9, 213 https://books.google.es/books?id=liV8AwAAQBAJ&pg=PA213&lpg=P... "The upper opening was covered with a laced timpanum of sharkskin lashed to the lower end by means of cords through rectangular slots around the bottom rim of the drum" Mervyn McLean, Weavers of Song: Polynesian Music and Dance, 56 https://books.google.es/books?id=GhEpKUITQUIC&pg=PA56&lpg=PA... |
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