What's plastic, a metre long, brightly coloured and sounds like an elephant? It's the vuvuzela, the noise-making trumpet of South African football fans, and it's come to symbolise the sport in the country.
It's an instrument, but not always a musical one. Describing the atmosphere in a stadium packed with thousands of fans blowing their vuvuzelas is difficult. Up close it's an elephant, sure, but en masse the sound is more like a massive swarm of very angry bees.
And when there's action near the goal mouth, those bees go really crazy.
To get that sound out requires lip flexibility and lung strength - in short, a fair amount of technique. So be sure to get in some practice before attending a South African football match, or you the sound you produce may cause some amusement in the seats around you!
Vuvuzela supplier Boogieblast offers this advice: "Put your lips inside the mouthpiece and almost make a 'farting' sound. Relax your cheeks and let your lips vibrate inside the mouthpiece. As soon as you get that trumpeting sound, blow harder until you reach a ridiculously loud 'boogying blast'.
It's an instrument, but not always a musical one. Describing the atmosphere in a stadium packed with thousands of fans blowing their vuvuzelas is difficult. Up close it's an elephant, sure, but en masse the sound is more like a massive swarm of very angry bees.
And when there's action near the goal mouth, those bees go really crazy.
To get that sound out requires lip flexibility and lung strength - in short, a fair amount of technique. So be sure to get in some practice before attending a South African football match, or you the sound you produce may cause some amusement in the seats around you!
Vuvuzela supplier Boogieblast offers this advice: "Put your lips inside the mouthpiece and almost make a 'farting' sound. Relax your cheeks and let your lips vibrate inside the mouthpiece. As soon as you get that trumpeting sound, blow harder until you reach a ridiculously loud 'boogying blast'.
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Mavuvule is unlogical instrument,unsystematic, noisy voices, in a simple word we may call them "kelele". We get no theme fron these noisy voices.I am still wondering what is its source/s??!!.
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ReplyDeleteMa-Vuvuzela machache kwa wakati hakuna taabu.
Lakini mavuvuzela meeeeengi na yanapulizwa kwa mwendelezo bila kukoma ni hatari katika ngoma za masikio ya mwanadamu na pia yanakuwa ni kelele mbaya wakati Wasauz ni mwisho katika kelele zilizopangwa(miziki)!
Na usiniambie kuwa wanaochukia kelele hizo ni wasio Waafrika tu, mimi mwenyewe ni Mwafrika orijino!
Vuvuzela limeharibu kabisa uhondo wa Kombe la Dunia, hasa kwa sisi tunaolipata kupitia luninga!!
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