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This week-end , the Vinyl Market at Campo de Santa Clara, Lisbon. Good chance to find some good old 12’ LP records – and many memories. I found a few records I did not knew, and many others I had forgotten. Bad photo (made with a re-loaded disposable plastic camera).

A few findings. The Jimi Hendrix  Experience “Electric Ladyland” double LP (I had it forty years ago – someone stole it from me) and an album from  Marianne Faithfull (I have a soft spot for her songs – she could have had a different  life away from the shadow of Mick Jagger). Also a box with three LPs (Keith Jarret’s  solo concerts in Bremen and in Lausanne). A fruitfull Saturday

Adufeira

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The Adufe is a square-shaped membranophone, introduced to Portugal by the Arabs in the 8th and 9th centuries. It has a square wooden structure and is covered on both sides with tanned goatskin. Traditionally one of the faces is that of a male animal, the other that of a female animal (some say it sounds better that way !). In the corners there are decorations with colored ribbons.

It is played in a vertical position and struck with the fingers and hands. Inside there are grains, seeds or small stones that make  a rattling noise when shaking the Adufe. It is an instrument usually played by women (“adufeiras”) and has a strong presence in the interior of central Portugal.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Adufe

I used the old and very rough wooden structure of a small-sized adufe as a frame for a small painting (oil on plywood), as a memory of its origin.