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Heep Group: Members Posts: 7 Joined: Nov. 2004 Posted: Nov. 09 2004, 12:15 What on earth is a "Wonga Box," as played on Amarok? Back to top

Ugo Group: Members Posts: 5495 Joined: April 2000 Posted: Nov. 09 2004, 17:24 I think it's simply a wooden box being hit by fingertips with thimbles on. An Italian percussionist some time ago had such a box, and when asked its name, he said it was called "Wonga" and that it came from Africa. -------------- Ugo C. - a devoted Amarokian Back to top

Heep Group: Members Posts: 7 Joined: Nov. 2004 Posted: Nov. 09 2004, 21:27 Awesome, thanks for the info. Just bought Amarok today and am currently listening to it for the third time   Back to top

Korgscrew Group: Super Admins Posts: 3511 Joined: Dec. 1999 Posted: Nov. 10 2004, 08:42 That's interesting to know - I've not come across any information before on what it might be. One possibility I'd considered was that it's actually a money box (wonga is a British slang term for money), which would be quite an amarok-like thing to have, but the wooden box theory makes sense. Back to top

Heep Group: Members Posts: 7 Joined: Nov. 2004 Posted: Nov. 10 2004, 20:49 Any idea where it's played in the song? Back to top

Ugo Group: Members Posts: 5495 Joined: April 2000 Posted: Nov. 11 2004, 08:42 It depends on what it really is. If it's a wooden box, according to what I think, then it's the ticking percussive sound heard in various places (e.g. right after the Intermission). If, according to what Korgscrew thinks, it's a money box, it may be one of the mechanical-sounding items in the 'Mad Bits". -------------- Ugo C. - a devoted Amarokian Back to top

hiawatha Group: Members Posts: 2391 Joined: Mar. 2004 Posted: Nov. 11 2004, 12:12 I was wondering if a wonga box would have been something filled with chocolate. -------------- "In the land of the Dacotahs, Where the Falls of Minnehaha Flash and gleam among the oak-trees, Laugh and leap into the valley." - Song of Hiawatha Back to top

Heep Group: Members Posts: 7 Joined: Nov. 2004 Posted: Nov. 19 2004, 10:27 I had it pictured as a jack-in-the-box   Back to top

hiawatha Group: Members Posts: 2391 Joined: Mar. 2004 Posted: Nov. 19 2004, 11:23 "Life is like a box of wonka". -------------- "In the land of the Dacotahs, Where the Falls of Minnehaha Flash and gleam among the oak-trees, Laugh and leap into the valley." - Song of Hiawatha Back to top

Ugo Group: Members Posts: 5495 Joined: April 2000 Posted: Nov. 20 2004, 18:48 Apart from Willy Wonka and his magical chocolates , and despite Korgscrew's suggestion above that it may be British slang, "wonga" still resonates to my ears as something African - just like Karl Jenkins' invented words in the Songs of Sanctuary album. So maybe that Italian guy I mentioned above was right. -------------- Ugo C. - a devoted Amarokian Back to top

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