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The thing that’s impressive to me is that it has the holes for controlling pitch. The reconstruction offers some guesses at the temperament, but I imagine there
by dhosek 3y ago
The thing that’s impressive to me is that it has the holes for controlling pitch. The reconstruction offers some guesses at the temperament, but I imagine there’s a lot of room for error. Presumably there are other instruments even older (it’s likely that the very first instruments would be percussion instruments which, even should they survive, would be difficult to identify as musical instruments tens of thousands of years later.
- QuercusMax 3y agoThe first percussion instruments were almost certainly either rocks or sticks banged together. The sticks were presumably used just like claves (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Claves https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Claves).
- gabrielsroka 3y ago> Probably the earliest flyswatters were nothing more than some sort of striking surface attached to the end of a long stick. https://snltranscripts.jt.org/93/93rdeep1.phtml https://snltranscripts.jt.org/93/93rdeep1.phtml
- bdhcuidbebe 3y agoIn Africa there are several giant boulders that when stroken plays a certain tune. While undateable, they show markings from a very long time of use.
- dheera 3y ago> lot of room for error I mean, when you have all day and nothing to do sitting around in your cave, you can make a lot of flutes and hopefully one will be error-free.
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- dhosek 3y agoI was thinking not about the original flute, but the recreation of it from a fragmentary artifact.