[Bonetools] FW: more bone instruments

[Idoia Grau]

By the way, Alice, in case you didn't understand the description of the Youtube video, it says that the flute that one of the musicians is playing is made of a vulture "wing".

Regards,
Idoia

Idoia Grau Sologestoa

Dpto. Geografía, Prehistoria y Arqueología

Universidad del País Vasco - Euskal Herriko Unibertsitatea


Date: Mon, 23 Sep 2013 17:10:22 +0200
From: choyke at ceu.hu
To: bonetools at listserv.niif.hu
Subject: Re: [Bonetools] more bone instruments

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.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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