June 30, 2007

Prehistoric music Instruments from Ireland and beyond, and the sounds they made.
posted by Abiezer_Coppe 17 years ago
  • Needs more crotals!
  • Wow, very, very cool!
  • Very interesting. Completely unrelated: I know my monitor is small by the "must have bigger crap all the time" zeitgeist of the modern tech landscape, but why are there so many sites with fixed-width tables lately? I thought CSS was supposed to eradicate those.. I hate scrolling sideways. Raughwrr!
  • A lot of them look like alphorns.
  • Good links, thanks Abie! The dogs really didn't like the sound clips very much, interestingly -- some primeval harmonic or something?
  • Great post. Back in 1984, I heard a concert performed on lurs, (pic and sound files) which are Viking bronze horns, about twice as big as the largest Irish horns in the fpp, and held on your shoulder like a berserker sousaphone. What surprised me about the Irish instruments was the number of side-blown horns, which are usually associated with Africa. [Long-time lurker, first-time poster. Hi, everybody!]
  • Neat. And howdy, M Valdemar!
  • Thanks for the extra linkage, M Valdemar, and welcome!