I'm not entirely sure what constitutes a 'flute' or a 'whistle' but I sorta' doubt it had the hardware to make it a flute anything like what we know...even though it was probably made by the normally clever German folk.
Dale, I think the C&F Center for Scientific Research oughta' make the trek to Germany for further investigation and loads of tasty pastry! What say ye?
Awaiting your command,
Joe Krepps <-mostly German, sometimes clever, always ready for tasty pastry!
emmline wrote:From what it says, it would be a pic of bone shards.
*tsk*
Em, as I recall, the article sez the shards were reassembled. My question is, is it playable? Is it in Just, Mean, or Equal temperament? May we expect replicas?
OK, I will bow to semantic hairsplitting and admit upon rereading that the article said "pieced together", not "reassembled". Philistines. You may be right, Em. They might have put it together like a puzzle and then got tired. How to find out? Must I travel to Swabia?
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(There's just something really funny about imagining a prehistoric human trying to make an instrument. Probably the fact that I've tried and felt like a caveman myself. )
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We can leave your friends behind
Cause your friends don't dance and if they don't dance
Well they're no friends of mine.
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One could form a lot from 31 shards of bone. What makes them so sure it's an instrument. Without pictures it's a worthless article. Maybe the archeologists wanted to find an instrument thus they found an instrument.
Ok, girls and boys,
as Tübingen is only a stone's throw away, I'll see if I can give that ol' Schwegel a good Flogging Reel. And after that I'll make a couple of replicas out of hens' wings and sell them for 2.000 each. Now is that a master plan?
ChristianRo wrote:Ok, girls and boys,
as Tübingen is only a stone's throw away, I'll see if I can give that ol' Schwegel a good Flogging Reel. And after that I'll make a couple of replicas out of hens' wings and sell them for 2.000 each. Now is that a master plan?
Hah! For 2.000 Euros, I want crane bone. AND a tuning slide.
I have written in my will, that I insist on being buried with my trombone...the trombone I hated, and was forced to play in 7th grade. In that way, I'll know that nobody will ever be forced to play it, ever again.
But after reading this thread, I am hoping that, 35,000 years from now, when I am dug up, some archeologist will make a discovery....ancient Homo sapiens found with curious metal musical instrument.
Flyingcursor wrote:One could form a lot from 31 shards of bone. What makes them so sure it's an instrument. Without pictures it's a worthless article. Maybe the archeologists wanted to find an instrument thus they found an instrument.
Heheh. I was thinking the same thing. What if it used to be a whole tusk and they just never found the peices where the "holes" are?
We can dance if we want to
We can leave your friends behind
Cause your friends don't dance and if they don't dance
Well they're no friends of mine.
)
"It might be a bit better to tune to one of my fiddle's open strings, like A, rather than asking me for an F#." - Martin Milner