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Pictured Above: Glenn Kotche, of Wilco and other projects, shows off his cowbell collection at his Chicago studio. / Mark GreenbergBut when did it start? How did we go from putting bells on livestock to It turns out that adorning animals with bells goes back 10,000 years when crude necklace charms were made from snail shells, wood, iron, brass or pottery, their clappers clanging out a distinct ping and ding. Their clatter kept track of flocks in the field and warned off predators.These bells were tuned to differing pitches depending on the needs of the farmer. The lead animals bell resounded deeper (thus the origin of the word ) and the unique jingle of a calf’s bell let a farmer know where the youngest member of his herd strayed. The sound has come to signify something deeply rural and lovely, although, admittedly, not everyone feels this way.

Last year, an Englishman living in France associated with the sounds.Of course, cowbells have also come to be associated with things not so bucolic. How did the humble cowbell end up on every drum kit of rock, hair and heavy metal band, its rhythmic beat infusing the Stones’ “Honky Tonk Woman” or feigning the tick-tock of a clock in the Chamber Brothers’?Its path from serenity to the cult cry from the famous Saturday Night Live skit in which Will Ferrell clangs along to begins around 1904, according to, a composer and dean of creative programs at the Curtis Institute.

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That was the year two German composers got cowbell fever. Gustav Mahler used them to create a sense of the country for pastoral movements in his Symphony No. 6 and Richard Strauss used them in (see the percussionist jiggle them at 16:13).Both men had spent time near country pastures in their youth, where locals celebrated the changing seasons with spring and fall cow parades called when herdsmen led the flocks through town to and from the mountain fields, their cowbells clanging in unison. “The movement of the cowbell as something very functional in the pasture to a percussion instrument in the concert hall is pretty cool if you think about it,” Ludwig adds.Mahler, who was considered avant-garde in his day, the sound of the cowbell represented the last sound heard between the journey from earth to heaven. He was known to have, ringing a cowbell worn around his neck. Eventually, the clapper was removed, replaced by the thwack of a drumstick to better control the ring.

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Once in the door, cowbells never left, joining the ranks of culture.By the 1920s it surfaced in early American music. Soon it made the leap to Afro-Cuban and Latin American rumbas and cha-chas, then jazz, finally bursting onto the rock scene as early as the 1950s, sometimes in surreal twists. The 1968 song boasts one of the more recognizable cowbell riffs, and while the lyrics suggest livestock munching away, it is almost certainly about smoking pot. Meanwhile, the cowbell gets back to its roots (sort of) in the 1983 Def Leppard song which kicks off with the German-sounding nonsense Although the popular heyday of the cowbell might have been in the ’70s, reaching its zenith in the ’80s, there are those who still hold it in esteem. Enter and his percussion arsenal.Kotche is the drummer for alternative and also a composer of solo percussive works who has written acclaimed pieces for and performed with the Kronos Quartet, eighth blackbird, The Silk Road Ensemble, Bang On A Can All-Stars and his duo On Fillmore.