a small, colourful plastic trumpet blown by football fans to make a noise during matches
Move over vuvuzela. A compact, Belgian-made trumpet dubbed the diabolica is gearing up to replace the South African horn as the noisemaker of choice at the next World Cup games in Brazil.
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The diabolica is the creation of young Belgian designers David Dos Santos and Fabio Lavalle. The instrument was named after the Belgian national football team who are known as ‘the Red Devils’ (i.e. French diable = devil). Dos Santos and Lavalle got the idea for the product from a friend of a friend who had been banned from entering a stadium with a conventional gas canister horn. Taking inspiration from nature and how birds make sounds through vibration against a membrane, they experimented with various membranes to get the desired effect.