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Prehistoric flute in Germany is oldest known
Associated Press ^ | Jun 24, 2009 | Patrick McGroarty

Posted on 06/24/2009 12:40:02 PM PDT by decimon

AP Photo/Daniel Maurer

A bird-bone flute unearthed in a German cave was carved some 35,000 years ago and is the oldest handcrafted musical instrument yet discovered, archaeologists say, offering the latest evidence that early modern humans in Europe had established a complex and creative culture.

(Excerpt) Read more at newsvine.com ...


TOPICS: History
KEYWORDS: archaeomusicology; creation; epigraphyandlanguage; evolution; flute; flutes; godsgravesglyphs; neandertal; neandertalflute; neandertals; neanderthal; neanderthalflute; neanderthals
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1 posted on 06/24/2009 12:40:03 PM PDT by decimon
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To: SunkenCiv

Fleutonic ping.


2 posted on 06/24/2009 12:41:21 PM PDT by decimon
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To: decimon

As a flute player, myself.....neat story! Thanks for posting. :)


3 posted on 06/24/2009 12:44:20 PM PDT by RushIsMyTeddyBear (Obama. Clear and Pres__ent Danger.)
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To: decimon

must be ian anderson relative’s


4 posted on 06/24/2009 12:45:54 PM PDT by tatsinfla
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To: decimon

I wonder what the scale sounds like?


5 posted on 06/24/2009 12:47:31 PM PDT by texmexis best (uency)
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To: texmexis best; RushIsMyTeddyBear
I wonder what the scale sounds like?

I don't know. Can you guess at it, Rush?

6 posted on 06/24/2009 12:51:21 PM PDT by decimon
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To: decimon

Being a founding member of The Committee to Beat Jean-Pierre Rampal Severely About the Head and Shoulders With James Galway, I regard this as early evidence of Man’s Fallen State.


7 posted on 06/24/2009 12:53:48 PM PDT by Grut
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To: decimon
I believe that early Egyptians put their deceased Pharaohs 'skin flutes' into ceramic vessels, surely these must be older...
8 posted on 06/24/2009 1:00:04 PM PDT by Leo Farnsworth (I'm not really Leo Farnsworth...)
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To: decimon

Looks like a Gao’uld skeleton to me...


9 posted on 06/24/2009 1:00:35 PM PDT by pabianice
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To: decimon

nose flute


10 posted on 06/24/2009 1:00:37 PM PDT by JoeProBono (A closed mouth gathers no feet)
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To: RushIsMyTeddyBear

Flute and pic player here, too!

Sure, sure, flute family but not to be pic-ky, but I’d say it was a piccolo instead of a flute considering the size and what I’d imagine the range would be.


11 posted on 06/24/2009 1:02:11 PM PDT by bgill (The evidence simply does not support the official position of the Obama administration)
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To: Grut

Flute flout, Grut?


12 posted on 06/24/2009 1:05:38 PM PDT by decimon
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To: decimon

Bier straw with high pressure release ports...


13 posted on 06/24/2009 1:09:53 PM PDT by IrishPennant (RLT = Radical Left Terrorism...feel it????)
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To: decimon

I have no idea...with part of it missing. The pitch would be pretty high tho by looking at the length and bore size.


14 posted on 06/24/2009 1:16:03 PM PDT by RushIsMyTeddyBear (Obama. Clear and Pres__ent Danger.)
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To: Grut

LOL!


15 posted on 06/24/2009 1:17:06 PM PDT by RushIsMyTeddyBear (Obama. Clear and Pres__ent Danger.)
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To: RushIsMyTeddyBear
If you follow this link, you can find the NYT version of this story with audio of a replica ancient flute being played:

Flutes Offer Clues to Stone-Age Music

Friedrich Seeberger, a German specialist in ancient music, reproduced the ivory flute in wood. Experimenting with the replica, he found that the ancient flute produced a range of notes comparable in many ways to modern flutes. “The tones are quite harmonic,” he said. A replica is yet to be made of the recent discovery, but the archaeologists said they expected the five-hole flute with its larger diameter to “provide a comparable, or perhaps greater, range of notes and musical possibilities.”

16 posted on 06/24/2009 1:31:13 PM PDT by MaestroLC ("Let him who wants peace prepare for war."--Vegetius, A.D. Fourth Century)
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Cheers! I’ll check it out.


17 posted on 06/24/2009 1:58:00 PM PDT by RushIsMyTeddyBear (Obama. Clear and Pres__ent Danger.)
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To: decimon
Stone age civilizations could be culturally very advanced. The Native Americans and Hawaiians were essentially stone age civilizations.
18 posted on 06/24/2009 1:59:04 PM PDT by ThinkingBuddha
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The Committee to Beat Jean-Pierre Rampal Severely About the Head and Shoulders With James Galway

ROFL!

19 posted on 06/24/2009 2:09:07 PM PDT by paulycy (Liberal DOUBLE-STANDARDS are HATE speech.)
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Thanks decimon. Obviously made by a distant ancestor of Ian Anderson.

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20 posted on 06/24/2009 2:42:08 PM PDT by SunkenCiv (http://www.troopathon.org/index.php -- June 25th -- the Troopathon)
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