Originally published at: Hear the sound of an 18,000 year old musical instrument | Boing Boing
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I can record that any day of the week, especially in the morn.
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Got a sniffy response last time. I still find it fascinating.
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Mine has more vibrato.
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Prehistoric whoopee cushion - had our ancestors in stitches, lemme tellya!
WOW!
Thanks so much for posting.
The way ancient musical artifacts were actually played has been a problem for musicology. You’ve got an ‘object’ but little resource to tonality and playing technique. I suspect that the more funky application of the conch shell was not in their musical vocabulary!?
For example: if an alien (ET) was to find the instrument artifacts of a piano and a guitar, they could understand the tonal system but never understand the cultural context and technical expertise of the musicians: Bach, Hendrix, Peterson, Dale, Ives, Argerich, Reinhart, Keys, Prince et al
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Cool. It’s going to be a bit of a trick getting “Freebird” out of it though. 
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