Before we can begin to play castanets, we must make sure the strings are knotted correctly.
A proper castanet knot allows you to tighten your castanets by pulling on one side of the string and to loosen them by pulling on the other.
Here’s how you do it, step by step.
Follow the video tutorial below, and get your castanets ready to play!
You’ll find each step of the process listed below the video.
How to Tie the Castanet Knot Step by Step:
1. Feed the string through your castanets.
2. Pull one side of the string so that it is a couple of inches longer than the other side.
3 Loop the long side of the string around the short side two times.
4. Feed that string under and through the two loops you just made.
5. Support the looped part, which is about to become your knot, with one hand while pulling the string you just fed through with your other hand to finish forming your knot.
This is much easier to do with a visual guide, so please follow the tutorial above!
How did it go?
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