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One would think a blade of grass would be even older than the flute. Kids sometimes pick up grass whistling intuitively but its also something that is culturall
by asdff 3y ago
One would think a blade of grass would be even older than the flute. Kids sometimes pick up grass whistling intuitively but its also something that is culturally passed down over the years at the playground, and might be quite old.
- jacurtis 3y agoAfter watching the video, it seems that they are distinguishing it by the fact that it was a man-made object created for the specific purpose of producing music. This of course still allows for other pre-existing natural objects to be used for music playing. For example, I assume prior to creating a flute, human ancestors likely batted rocks together or beat rocks against hollow logs to create a beat or variants of music. But the significance of this finding is that it was purpose-made for creating music, which is interesting since it hints at the cultural impact that music may have played 60,000+ years ago.
- ilyt 3y agoOr just hitting something with a stick to drum
- rpastuszak 3y agoThat reminds me, tangentially, of The Song of the Reed, by Rumi. http://www.dar-al-masnavi.org/n-I-0001.html#1 http://www.dar-al-masnavi.org/n-I-0001.html#1 (think of the 3 meanings of reed: an instrument turning human breath (life) into music, a writing tool (qalam), and of course a living creature itself)