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Miguel Martmn Angel Sword
Judge C.N.J./F.O.C.D.E. of Song T. Espa6nol
" Timbrado Dmcese of the voice that has
an pleasant timbre ".
" It stamps Way own and characteristic
of sounding to a musical instrument or the voice of a person ".
(extracted Definitions of the Dictionary of
the Real Spanish Academy)
Lately it has recovered already forces the old
controversy on the origin of the Timbrado term The certain
thing is that it is not a subject that has never worried to me in
excess, because independently of how it is wanted to call to our
canary (memory to the reader who, at the moment, in F.o.c.d.e.
the denominations canary of Spanish Song are used indifferently
and Timbrado the important thing it is the song and
in this one, although it is not to the the liking of all, prioritize
the turns of noncontinuous rate, being discontinuous those that
better characterize and define the songs of our singer with
respect to other canoras races. I have defended and always I will
defend that it is in the work of improvement of the race in that
we must center our efforts, forgetting to us secondary subjects
that single they take to cloud the pacific coexistence between the
fans who, although based on the mutual respect, maintain positions
different; but it does not mean to resign to think and to try to
contribute to find the truth.
In this sense and depending on the type of
turns that each criador prefers, the origin of the Timbrado denomination
usually is explained on the basis of different foundations.
For, the origin is in which the timbres are the fundamental turns
of the song of the race. For others, it makes reference to the peculiarity
of the timbre of voice of our canaries, characterized
by his special ability to interpret turns of beautiful metallic
loudness.
Both theories are used as if they were opposed,
when the reality is well different. The ambiguity of the stamped
way was used, at its moment, to try to content to the greater possible
number of fans, but, by the form in which it prevailed soon
it derived in an authentic pitched battle between that they
defended the stamped ones caused by the A.c.e. and
those that maintained that those were not, neither by the name nor
by the song, genuine representatives of longed for the old race
of the Country (whose more famous exponents, it seems to
be, were the canaries of Vich . The controversy acquired
unimaginable proportions, mainly, after becoming the news that public
in Asturias canaries whose song was identified, by insignes
grew up personages of the national canaricultura that knew it, like
the one of that winged canora wonder that was believed lost
for always. In effect, it was Antonio Drove Aza that, in
1952 identified the type of song of units which it listened
in Avilis like the same one which it characterized to canary
yearned for his of Vich
Beyond the controversy, it is precise to make a
retrospective vision and to study the question of an objective form.
For it we must go to the testimonies written that have left the
protagonists us of the selection of the race. Everything what does
not suppose to make a study historical of the subject does not let
be more than pure speculation and what less needs the canary
Spanish Song is, indeed, that
The purpose of these lines is neither to criticize
nor to defend the Timbrado name of or I have made clear that
for me it is a secondary subject. But, in honor to the truth, I
believe that it is the moment for clarifying certain aspects, or,
rather, to present/display, although it is of brief and concise
form, a series of facts to the fan so that is this one the one that
reflects and reaches its own conclusions, with cause knowledge and
not because it says somebody to it that, possibly, it has, still,
less idea than on this subject.
Before entering matter and to be locating to
the reader, there am the primitive list of the Spanish Timbrado
one here that that it was made under the direction of Alexander
Garrido and that began to be used in 1950:
- STAMPED FAST NOTES
Acute timbre...........................,3
points
Normal timbre...........................,6
points
Serious timbre...........................,,9
points
- INTERMEDIATE NOTES
Chau Chau..............................,,3
points
Piau Piau...................................3
points
Cloqueos.................................,,9
points
Cascabeleo..............................,,9
points
Castanets...............................9
points
- SLOW NOTES
Calls.................................,,3 points
Slow notes (Floreos
and Notas with Echo) 9 points
Printing
general..............................,,9 points
Tone of song....................................
6 points
PUNISHMENT NOTES
Note prolongation....................6
points
Breathlessness or rascada........................,,6
points
Estridencia.................................,6
points
Of articles of the time it is extracted clearly
that the Timbrado denomination of was adopted by two reasons:
1:) Because the timbres were considered as
basic turns of until then denominated song of the Country
2:) By the transmission of the song in high
and metallic tonalities.
The main problem was provoked by the form in
which the denomination Timbrado Spanish by the A.c.e was
adopted without considering the opinion of an important
sector of the criadores of the other interested part, the National
Group of Birds, the Union of Cattle ranch In the same
one were prestigious canaricultores and judges, who as much showed
their disagreement by the new denomination as by the fact that the
advice disregarded themselves those who had known the greatness
of the old canary of the Country and tried to avoid that
a type of song very different from was restored which did and respected
the Spanish canaries of song famous; since the song that was considered
basic by the criadores of the A.c.e. it was, in
opinion of those, the product of the mistificacisn produced by unfortunate
crossings with varieties foreigners (among them the Roller canary
she does not agree to forget that one of the causes of which
was not recognized the Spanish Timbrado one in 1956
internationally it was, indeed, to consider the experts international
that was the product, nonpolished, of crossings with the race German).
Thus, we found opinions like those of J.
S. Rico Nz6nez and S. the Ruizes who defended that
the old denomination stayed: canary of the Country For Rico
" the Timbrado denomination of Spanish is not new, is a German
refrito that not even is original " opposition of Ruiz
was based on which, if stamped it came of timbres, the denomination
was incorrect because these turns were common and equal in all the
races and, consequently, they could not to be considered as distinctive
and characteristic of the song of the canary of the Country
More duro was Antonio Drove
that, although resident in Madrid, was natural of Vich
one of the populations where, as already one has scored, it
got to reach its greater perfection the song of the Country
This reputed international judge of Roller song director
then of the magazine " Birds ", had been criador in his youth
of the prestigious canary of Vich and as expert of the race
she could not accept the denomination of stamped by several aspects:
1:) the timbres were not the basic turns of
the old song of the Country rather on the contrary, those
were the turns of noncontinuous rate of transmission that better
they defined.
2:) the timbres defined in the Code of Song
of the Spanish Timbrado one on which the name of the race was
based, were in fact rollers, as soon as that were defined as turns
of continuous rate; since in canaricultura of song, independently
of the races, the concepts were such and the timbre was considered
a turn of semicontinuous rate. Thus, it was not explained how, being
known the concept timbre of the Roller song (klingel
, the elaboradores of the Code of the Timbrado one
were had separated of the same one, especially considering
that stops to make this Code had taken like reference the
one from the German race; processed by the Wolf German and
who in referring to the scores one was based on the famous rule
of the tridivisibilidad - also well-known like 3 - 6
- 9 -.
3:) was not Either in agreement with the stamped
name of referred the peculiarity of the voice of the race, since,
in its opinion, it limited the pitch registry of the same one and
caused the transmission of songs in high tonalities, in contrast
to the losses of the Roller canary which, besides to favor
estridentes songs, absolutely characterized the old canaries
of the Country
All these critics, possibly, had past inadvertent
if it had not been, as more has already been indicated it arrives,
by the discovery in Asturias of canaries whose type of song
was recognized like the one of the primitive Spanish race. This,
accompanied by the success that soon obtained the canaries Asturian
between the Madrilenian criadores it caused that the
controversy was revived, since the critics of Antonio Drove
and Santiago Ruiz found a solid support to their theses
on the authentic song of the canary of the Country
Soon, from Asturias voices like the
one arose from Cayetano Tame Perez president
of the A.o. " the Carbaysn " demanding
a new denomination of the race: Spanish Singer on a par
that denounced the situation of the Asturian canaries in
the aids, before the injustices that a Code in that caused,
paradoxicalally, they were not possible to be reflected, like Drove
already denounced the wealth and the variety of the song
of the genuine canaries of of the Country
All these critics were disregarded by the
A.c.e. and the F.o.e. In 1962 the C.o.m. it
recognized internationally to Timbrado Spanish at
the request of the F.o.e. It is as of that moment where
the confusion of the fans with respect to the origin of the name
of the race begins, at least within the National Group of Birds
In the G.n.p. soon directives were marked
of which it had to be the song of the Timbrado one very different
from the followed ones by the criadores of the F.o.e. The
opinions of Rico the Ruizes Drove and of
more and more the important group of Asturian judges, headed by
Rafael Martinez Bouzo caused that many concepts were reframed
until then unquestionable; one of them was the name of the race.
There it is where the present confusion was born on the stamped
origin of, since, when not sharing that the timbres were the basic
turns of the song of our canary, it was to inculcar to the fans,
like bad minor, who the denomination had only and exclusively to
the voice timbre
The thing would have remained thus, in the A.o.n.s.
(name that adopted the G.n.p. in 1971), if it had not
been by integration in the same one of the A.c.e. in 1972.
The criadores and judges of the A.c.e. they were in charge,
besides to defend his vision of how it had to be the song, to remember
that they were those that they baptized to the race and that stamped
also came from timbres.
The rest of history and its consequences are of
surpluses known by all. Since then, the question of the name has
be the favorite weapon of and others to justify its origin not only
but what type of song is the genuine one of the Spanish Timbrado
one In order to complicate the situation, people who, in their
day, defended the positions of the A.c.e. now they say that
stamped she must to the voice timbre; of the same form that there
is who defended in the past that the timbres were not basic turns
of the race and now they affirm all the opposite. The situation,
far from clarifying by those who they directly lived the origin
on the controversy, is entangled more. To whom to believe?
The certain thing is that, after throwing a look
when iter followed by the question, there are some questions
that do not let make the rounds by my head:
- If it were denominated stamped to our canary
by the transmission of timbres, why it was not baptized to the race
with the name of Timbrador One said that Timbrado
it was to timbre which Roller to roller, but to anybody
escapes that the translation of roller is rulador or, more
correctly, rodador (not rulado or rolled), that
is to say, that rula or rolls. Timbrado on the contrary,
in the Castilian language, it means provided with a timbre
of pleasant voice
- If the timbres were the turns that characterized
song of the race, why the highest scores were not granted to them.
Of between the timbres, so single the serious one it appeared
with a valuation of 9 points, which is contrasentido if we consider
that defended that the song had to be metalist (the consequent thing,
according to the sight, had been to grant the greater score to the
acute timbre, of the same form that takes control of the variation
reigns of the Roller hollow roller - they hohrollen
- .
- Taking from reference the Roller song
why concepts take refook like valid and other no. Why the raised
technical observations were not taken care of, in this sense, by
prestigious judges of Roller like Drove
- Why they did not consider, on the part of the
criadores of the A.c.e. the opinions which had known the
canary of the Country directly in their time of greater
apogee. They would not prioritize, as some denounced then, questions
of interfederal rivalry.
Most of the raised questions they lack possible
answer, is to the reader to whom it has left the herczlea
task of, in views to the exposed facts, to draw his own conclusions.
But the truely terrible thing of all this subject is that we continued
discussing on subjects provoked fifty years ago. When it is not
the name is the turns: that if timbres yes or timbres no; that if
CHAUS and PIAUS yes or no; etc., etc., etc.. Instead of centering
in looking for the more suitable governing lines to us to follow
with the improvement of the race, empecinamos us in trying to undo
all the walked one. For that reason we did not progress like we
had, because we are immersed in a vicious circle that, throughout
the time, has caused that the weak foundations that dreamed up in
the Fifties favor that we always are sunk in a continuous discord.
The subject of the origin of the Timbrado denomination
must serve the criador to see the sterile thing of controversies
that the only thing that has done, does and will do is to destroy
passed, present and future likings. It is surprising that, in spite
of everything, our race is one of which more adept ones gain each
season. Then the expansion imagmnese the reader that it would have
if we did not pass most of the time discussing through and over
memeces
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