Sept 24, 2009: Flute

xoxoxoBruce · 09-24-2009, 12:11 AM

Remember, "Ancient sculpture has enormous rack", the IOtD of the 35,000 year old ivory carving?
Just 28 inches away from the busty babe, they found this flute.

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In all, researchers report finding the fragments of four flutes at two excavations in an area of southwestern Germany known as Swabia. Three of the sets of fragments were carved from mammoth ivory, but the real prize is a nearly complete flute hollowed out from the bone of a griffon vulture. That specimen was found in the Hohle Fels cave, just 28 inches (70 centimeters) away from the spot where the prehistoric Venus (or, as some wags have put it, "prehistoric porn") was found.

It may be the oldest instrument in existance.

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They said there were no "convincing" claims that any older musical instruments have ever been discovered.

"Convincing", being the key word here, because....

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Actually, Slovenian archaeologist Ivan Turk and other researchers have pointed to a bear-bone fragment that is about 50,000 years old and appears to have the finger holes for a flute. I wrote about that particular specimen nine years ago in a story on the "sounds of science." But there's still a controversy over whether the holes were made by a Neanderthal or by a bone-chomping scavenger.

So this may not be the oldest, but it did party with the busty babe.

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SPUCK · 09-24-2009, 05:29 AM

Is this a re-run?

DanaC · 09-24-2009, 05:32 AM

Oh that's so beautiful. Look how delicate it appears, yet it's survived all this time.

limey · 09-24-2009, 05:46 AM

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Originally Posted by xoxoxoBruce

So this may not be the oldest, but it did party with the busty babe.

talkin' 'bout yourself again xoB

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nil_orally · 09-24-2009, 06:46 AM

That's a little boner

capnhowdy · 09-24-2009, 07:25 AM

A petrified skin flute.

newtimer · 09-24-2009, 08:49 AM

Not quite convinced it's a flute. It looks like a piece of the world's oldest lawn-sprinkler system.

ajaccio · 09-24-2009, 09:39 AM

Bird bones being hollow - using a vulture bone was a good idea for that flute. I love this and would have liked to hear it being played by the maker.

Gravdigr · 09-24-2009, 10:43 AM

I think that's the stem from one of my bongs.

xoxoxoBruce · 09-25-2009, 12:37 AM

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Originally Posted by SPUCK

Is this a re-run?

Not that I know of, if so, show us.

SPUCK · 09-25-2009, 04:59 AM

No!

You can't make me!

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Musta c'd it somewhere else.

TheDaVinciChode · 09-27-2009, 12:06 PM

And this one time, at Band Camp...

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09-25-2009, 04:59 AM	#11
SPUCK Professor Join Date: Oct 2006 Posts: 1,911	No! You can't make me! ------------------------------------ Musta c'd it somewhere else.

09-24-2009, 05:29 AM	#2
SPUCK Professor Join Date: Oct 2006 Posts: 1,911	Is this a re-run?

09-24-2009, 08:49 AM	#7
newtimer Operations Operative Join Date: Apr 2008 Posts: 479	Not quite convinced it's a flute. It looks like a piece of the world's oldest lawn-sprinkler system.

09-24-2009, 09:39 AM	#8
ajaccio Colloquialist Join Date: Jul 2006 Posts: 76	Bird bones being hollow - using a vulture bone was a good idea for that flute. I love this and would have liked to hear it being played by the maker.

09-27-2009, 12:06 PM	#12
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