Spoon (musical Instrument)

Spoon (musical Instrument)

Spoons can be played as a makeshift percussion instrument, or more specifically, an idiophone related to the castanets. "Playing the spoons" originated in Ireland as "playing the bones," in which the convex sides of a pair of sheep rib bones were rattled in the same way.

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    A spoon does not know the taste of soup, nor a learned fool the taste of wisdom.
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