[Bonetools] more bone instruments

[Alice Choyke]

Dear Pam,
     You have made my day - especially the horse scotum rattle filled with
sheep astragali.

Alice


On Mon, Sep 23, 2013 at 4:15 PM, <PajX at aol.com> wrote:

> **
> 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-burro.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.huwrites:
>
> 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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