<div dir="ltr"><div>Dear Pam,</div><div> You have made my day - especially the horse scotum rattle filled with sheep astragali.</div><div> </div><div>Alice</div></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br><br><div class="gmail_quote">
On Mon, Sep 23, 2013 at 4:15 PM, <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:PajX@aol.com" target="_blank">PajX@aol.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">
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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" target="_blank">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="color:rgb(51,51,51);line-height:115%;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";font-size:10pt">oyses
hall museum, UK.
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm 0cm 0pt;line-height:normal"><a href="http://www.stedmundsburychronicle.co.uk/mselhist.htm" target="_blank"><font color="#0000ff" face="Calibri" size="3">http://www.stedmundsburychronicle.co.uk/mselhist.htm</font></a> .
</p></span>This is a good site: <a href="http://www.alashensemble.com/Instruments/igil/igil_folktale.htm" target="_blank"><font color="#0000ff" face="Calibri" size="3">http://www.alashensemble.com/Instruments/igil/igil_folktale.htm</font></a><u></u><u></u></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><span style="line-height:115%;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif";font-size:12pt"><font face="Arial">duyuglar) and then there's the
unhorse-related </font><span style="line-height:115%;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif";font-size:12pt"><font face="Arial">xapchyk (right) is a rattle made from the dried scrotum
of a bull filled with sheep knuckle</font> <font face="Arial">bones</font></span></span>...</font></font></div>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm 0cm 0pt;line-height:normal"><a href="http://www.alashensemble.com/instruments_percussion.htm" target="_blank"><font color="#0000ff" face="Calibri" size="3">http://www.alashensemble.com/instruments_percussion.htm</font></a><u></u><u></u></p>
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<div>Enjoy...</div>
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<div><font lang="0" face="Arial">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)
<a href="http://student.bradford.ac.uk" target="_blank">student.bradford.ac.uk</a> / pajx (at)
<a href="http://aol.com" target="_blank">aol.com</a><br><a href="http://www.barc.brad.ac.uk/resstud_Cross.php" target="_blank">http://www.barc.brad.ac.uk/resstud_Cross.php</a><br><a href="http://bradford.academia.edu/PamCross" target="_blank">http://bradford.academia.edu/PamCross</a><br>
<a href="http://www.suttonhoo.org/saxon.asp" target="_blank">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, <a href="mailto:choyke@ceu.hu" target="_blank">choyke@ceu.hu</a>
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<div><font color="#000000" style="background-color:transparent">Dear all,</font></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" target="_blank">http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3KEMuUPfuUk</a>)
entitled <span>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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