Dutch traditional instruments

Made by:

Het College Vos

Vlaardingen

H1T

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Index

• Introduction

• Draaiorgel (Barrel organ)

• Beiaard (Carillon)

• Fanfare (Fanfare)

• The end

Introduction

Hello,

This is the Dutch part of the traditional instruments-project. We liked to do this, but, we

have to say that is was pretty difficult to find traditional instruments of our country. We had

found some, though.

We've found: the carillon, (Dutch word: Beiaard) draaiorgel and the fanfare. We're going to

tell you something about these instruments and how they work. We hope you enjoy it, and

Maybe you'll know them already. We want to say thanks to our music teacher, and to

Everyone who helped us with this project.

Have fun!

Greets from Holland!

Draaiorgel

• It’s officially an Italian instrument, but if

you walk in Holland you definitely will see

one.

How the draaiorgel works

In a draaiorgel you put a book with holes.

When you turn the wheel of the draaiorgel

there comes air in the tubes in the draaiorgel.

All the time you get different holes, so

different flutes with different tones get

air. And then finally you get

A song.

Beiaard

• The beiaard you mostly see at churches. You hear it

often if you walk in Holland.

• A beiaard consists of a lot of bells (min. 23) that the

beiaardier (someone who plays the carrilon) can play.

• The Domtoren in Utrecht also has got a beiaard, it’s very

famous.

A beiaard

The Domtoren

Fanfare

The fanfare is a group of instruments that are played while walking. The fanfare

plays old Dutch songs like Het Wilhelmus and Oh, kom er eens kijken.

The last one is only played at the Dutch festivity sinterklaas. The fanfare

includes: Drum, trumpet, sax, and more. Nice to know is that the drums

officially comes from the fanfare, because the drums is more compact; you can

play all the different drums for just one person. The fanfare is something

typically Dutch, you can see it at almost every festivity!

The end

As you could see Holland isn’t a country that

Invents things by itself. It’s more a import

country that import things from other

countries.

I hope you enjoyed it!