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<DIV>Hi all</DIV>
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<DIV>Since you are showing odd/unusual bone instruments, I thought I would share
a couple...</DIV>
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<DIV>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...</DIV>
<DIV><A
href="http://uworldmusichouse.blogspot.co.uk/2013/05/day-33-brazil-quijada-de-burro.html">http://uworldmusichouse.blogspot.co.uk/2013/05/day-33-brazil-quijada-de-burro.html</A></DIV>
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<DIV>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 <FONT
color=#333333>M</FONT><SPAN
style="LINE-HEIGHT: 115%; FONT-FAMILY: 'Arial','sans-serif'; COLOR: #333333; FONT-SIZE: 10pt; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA">oyses
hall museum, UK.
<P style="LINE-HEIGHT: normal; MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt" class=MsoNormal><A
href="http://www.stedmundsburychronicle.co.uk/mselhist.htm"><FONT color=#0000ff
size=3
face=Calibri>http://www.stedmundsburychronicle.co.uk/mselhist.htm</FONT></A> .
</SPAN>This is a good site: <A
href="http://www.alashensemble.com/Instruments/igil/igil_folktale.htm"><FONT
color=#0000ff size=3
face=Calibri>http://www.alashensemble.com/Instruments/igil/igil_folktale.htm</FONT></A><o:p></o:p></P></DIV>
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<DIV>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 (<FONT face=Arial><FONT size=2><SPAN
style="LINE-HEIGHT: 115%; FONT-FAMILY: 'Times New Roman','serif'; COLOR: black; FONT-SIZE: 12pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA"><FONT
size=2 face=Arial>duyuglar) and then there's the
unhorse-related </FONT><SPAN
style="LINE-HEIGHT: 115%; FONT-FAMILY: 'Times New Roman','serif'; COLOR: black; FONT-SIZE: 12pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA"><FONT
size=2 face=Arial>xapchyk (right) is a rattle made from the dried scrotum
of a bull filled with sheep knuckle</FONT> <FONT size=2
face=Arial>bones</FONT></SPAN></SPAN>...</FONT></FONT></DIV>
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<P style="LINE-HEIGHT: normal; MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt" class=MsoNormal><A
href="http://www.alashensemble.com/instruments_percussion.htm"><FONT
color=#0000ff size=3
face=Calibri>http://www.alashensemble.com/instruments_percussion.htm</FONT></A><o:p></o:p></P></DIV>
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<DIV>Enjoy...</DIV>
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<DIV><FONT lang=0 size=2 face=Arial FAMILY="SANSSERIF" PTSIZE="10">Pamela J
Cross<BR>PhD researcher, Bioarchaeology <BR>Horses of Men & Gods
project<BR>(AHRC, NT, SHS, Bernard Cornwell & MoL) <BR>Archaeological
Sciences, University of Bradford, BD7 1DP UK<BR>p.j.cross (at)
student.bradford.ac.uk / pajx (at)
aol.com<BR>http://www.barc.brad.ac.uk/resstud_Cross.php<BR><A
href="http://bradford.academia.edu/PamCross">http://bradford.academia.edu/PamCross</A><BR><A
href="http://www.suttonhoo.org/saxon.asp">http://www.suttonhoo.org/saxon.asp</A>
(2012, Issue 54)</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV>In a message dated 23/09/2013 12:27:39 GMT Daylight Time, choyke@ceu.hu
writes:</DIV>
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<DIV><FONT style="BACKGROUND-COLOR: transparent" color=#000000>Dear all,</DIV>
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<DIV dir=ltr> Look this You Tube video(<A
title=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3KEMuUPfuUk
href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3KEMuUPfuUk">http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3KEMuUPfuUk</A>)
entitled <SPAN id=title>Aires de Dulzaina 2011 - Tocando junto a S.
Miguel</SPAN>. 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!</DIV>
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<DIV dir=ltr>Alice</DIV>
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