The Triangle (Ti-fer)

The triangle is a metal idiophone bent into a triangular shape with one open corner and struck with a metal beater. In Cajun French it is the tit-fer, from petit fer, little iron. It carries the strong beat when no drums are present, and players often hold it in the hand and damp one side with their fingers to change the tone. Its history is much older than Louisiana: the first known written use of the word dates from a 1589 inventory from Württemberg, and Liszt later gave it a solo part in his First Piano Concerto.

Where it stands

Worth the stop nearby

• Vermilionville — 2.2 mi
  A living-history village of about 23 acres on Bayou Vermilion in Lafayette, opened in 1990 to interpret the Native peoples, Acadians, Creoles and people of African descent of the Attakapas region.
• Cypress Island Preserve at Lake Martin — 7.3 mi
  Nearly 10,000 acres of bottomland hardwood and cypress-tupelo swamp at the south end of Lake Martin, owned by The Nature Conservancy, with a boardwalk and a rookery of egrets, spoonbills and alligators.
• Longfellow-Evangeline State Historic Site — 14 mi
  A bayou-side state site on former Attakapas hunting ground, with a raised Creole cottage of about 1815, a reproduction 1800 farmstead and its slave quarters, and the story behind Longfellow's Evangeline.
• St. Martin de Tours Catholic Church — 14 mi
  The Mother Church of the Acadians, founded in 1765 on St. Martin Square in St. Martinville, with a late 1870s Lourdes grotto and, a block away, the Evangeline Oak on Bayou Teche.

More markers nearby

• Miss Rose's Bar — steps away
• Holy Rosary Institute — 1.1 mi
• Gordon Square — 1.4 mi
• Pavy Studio — 1.4 mi