the gralla

Hi :)
Today I going to explain a instrument, a typical instrument in Catalonia, that few people know, it’s THE GRALLA, I’ve playing the gralla since 2000 more or less, and I’m the best player but also I’m not the worse. I play whit the gegants the Castelló d’Empúries, with Isaac M, Laura J, Clàudia, Anna M, Àngels, Oriol, and also two more people who play the drums. We started only for funny and also because our parents obligation to us, and we thought that in few years didn’t play more the gralla, but year by year we have a lot of teachers, that they teach us a lot of funny thinks, and we composed some songs, for this every summer we will go to the meetings and play all the time, now we have success.

The Gralla is an instrument of wind and an instrument of double “canya”, normally the gralla using for the “castellers” but now we use for the gegants.

It’s composed for 3 parts:
-Tudell: it’s the place when we put the canya
-Canya: it’s the part that do the sound
-Gralla: it’s made of wood, and it’s the parte that have the holes, it has 9 holes, of different sharp

Curiosities: the first gralla was made in 1975, but we can found another type of gralla, called dolçaina that it made in s.XIX


this is our teacher, of the last year: