The Lucky Drum
It was the early 1700s, and at that time couples met exclusively through their families.
Love among young people was platonic, and parents, noticing the mutual sympathies between their descendants, organized small parties that ended "a tarallucci e vino".
Everything was framed by the notes of the tarantella sung by a mandolin and a tambourine. Later, a great Neapolitan master, Raffaele Donnarumma, composed the first tarantella.
The tarantella later spread to almost all the regions and cities of the south, thus musically giving birth to the various tarantellas: the Lucanian one, the Sicilian one, the Sorrento Tarantella, and so on.
In 1903, on the island of Capri, the first Tarantella dancer was the beautiful Carmelina, she was fourteen years old and was a peasant who enchanted all the tourists with her charms, her dance, and the inseparable tambourine: the "Tarascone".
This surprising instrument has very ancient origins, perhaps it already existed in the 2nd millennium BC and was common to all ancient civilizations: from the Hebrews to the Egyptians, from the Sumerians to the Hittites.
Born to accompany the traditional music of every civilization, especially during banquets and ceremonies, it has managed to carry to us that magic that intertwines myths and legends, propitiatory rites, facts and people from a very distant time who cross ancestral sounds, are captured and projected, at supersonic speed, on the timeline reaching us and wishing us luck and longevity.
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