Originally published at: http://boingboing.net/2016/07/11/playing-an-lp-recording-of-bir.html
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I suppose it’s better than using a human skull as a speaker cabinet.
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Luckily we appreciate morbid here!
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I’ve always found that bird skulls really bring out the warmth of a recording. None of the hairy, milky overtones you get with mammal skulls.
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As a kid, I built my own stylus by rolling a piece of construction paper into a cone shape and taping a pin to the small end. Basically a “roll your own” victrola.
You can pretty much turn anything into an adhoc stylus as long as you have a pointy tip that can fit in between the grooves along with a medium to amplify the vibrations.
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There’s something wonderfully necromantic about this thing.
As a kid i saw a documentary about Papua New Guinea. Messages were carried to the highlands on records and played using the method you described – a cone of paper and a pin. no electricity required. My guess is that this was because it was a non-literate society.
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I think the only thing that would have improved it would be if the bird sounds matched the skull, but considering this was a seagull skull, it maybe for the best that it didn’t.
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It’s a living!
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Dinosaur skull acoustics!
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