My partner, Aahmes Quince playing a bird bone three-hole pipe. There are quite a few found all across Western Europe (and one at least in Russia) with the fingerholes all on the top side. I am not aware that anyone bothered to reconstruct one before. (Though probably someone has)
The bone, since I live in New Zealand, is that of a (more than probably) mollymawk, a kind of albatross. That's what I have washing up on the beach occasionally. The originals would have been anything from swan to vulture wingbones. (The one Russian example I am aware of is actually wood)
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I figured that one out. If you read the English entries without going into translate mode, they come up as written. If you translate the whole page, it "translates" the English as well, and the end result is, well, not quite right...
I don't understand why my preceding post came up as it is. I don't remember using any "gold" or "golden", neither using capital letters where not needed. Is the text processed by an Iphone when quoted in reply? ;-)
This is all true. The trick is in the availability or otherwise of the overblown registers. (at least overblown in tune). Bird bones are reasonably straight-bored, and long, so overblowing produces notes very well in tune with each other. Sheep, goat and deer bone pipes, that have been found by the hundreds, do not overblow in any musical sense. And reed pipes do not overblow at all, if the bore is as wide (compared to the length) as in the sheep at al bones. It would work with bird bones, though, but I doubt it that it would overblow in tune.
troubadour31 a dit :
Same principle, but the note progression is tone-tone-semitone, like in most tabor pipes. (The galoubet is tone-tone-tone) I really don't know what the originals were tuned to, they could have been any of the possibilities. (There are the tone-semitone-tone and the semitone-tone-tone varieties also, found in various areas of Spain.)
Est-ce le même principe que le "galoubets", mais avec un perce naturelle ?
Any tube, natural or not, along with some kind of tone generator, fipple or reed, can produce sound.
Change the length of the tube with tone holes and you've got a music instrument. :-)
And as it was a lot easier to use natural than drilled through tubes, it is most likely that such instruments were made even before the middle ages.
Drinking straws are nowadays frequently used as pedagogical means as they are a lot easier to get than eagle or vulture feathers.