[Bonetools] more bone instruments

[PajX at aol.com]

Hi all
 
Since you are showing odd/unusual bone instruments, I thought I would share 
 a couple...
 
I was first alerted to the possibilities for horse skeleton instruments by  
a production of Beowulf which featured a S. American percussion instrument 
using  a donkey's mandible...
http://uworldmusichouse.blogspot.co.uk/2013/05/day-33-brazil-quijada-de-burr
o.html
 
Then there was looking at horse imagery and chasing the horse-head fiddle  
(igil, at beyi igil, morin khuur, matouquin), which lead from some nice 
horse  head imagery scrollwork to those actually made from skulls (and a great  
associated legend). There's a 19th C example at Moyses  hall museum, UK.   
http://www.stedmundsburychronicle.co.uk/mselhist.htm . This is a good site: 
http://www.alashensemble.com/Instruments/igil/igil_folktale.htm
 
The mongols and other Eurasian plains peoples seem quite fond of the sound  
of running horses and seem to have a number of items to reproduce this 
sound,  including bells, actual horse hooves (duyuglar) and then there's the  
unhorse-related xapchyk (right) is a rattle made from the dried scrotum  of a 
bull filled with sheep knuckle bones...
 
http://www.alashensemble.com/instruments_percussion.htm
 
Enjoy...
 
 
Pamela J  Cross
PhD researcher, Bioarchaeology 
Horses of Men & Gods  project
(AHRC, NT, SHS, Bernard Cornwell & MoL) 
Archaeological  Sciences, University of Bradford, BD7 1DP UK
p.j.cross (at)  student.bradford.ac.uk / pajx (at)  aol.com
http://www.barc.brad.ac.uk/resstud_Cross.php
http://bradford.academia.edu/PamCross
http://www.suttonhoo.org/saxon.asp  (2012, Issue 54)
 
 

 
In a message dated 23/09/2013 12:27:39 GMT Daylight Time, choyke at ceu.hu  
writes:
 
Dear all,

   Look this  You Tube video(http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3KEMuUPfuUk)  
entitled Aires de Dulzaina 2011 - Tocando junto a S.  Miguel. All three 
musicians are wearing and one is using the  instrument. This instrument may be 
common knowledge for our Spanish colleagues  but it is a revelation to me!
 
Alice
 
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