[Bonetools] FW: more bone instruments

[Alice Choyke]

Dear Idoia,

       This instrument gets more and more interesting. I am dying to know
what their surface wear looks like.

Alice


On Mon, Sep 23, 2013 at 7:13 PM, Idoia Grau <idoia_grau at hotmail.com> wrote:

>
> 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.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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