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Ice Age And Stone Age Flute
After the announcement of the discovery of what might be the oldest instrument in the world, I felt quite inspired to research it and try to bring a semblance of it to my customers. The original was found in a cave in Germany and said to be 35,000 years old when Europe was being populated. The flute is 22 centimeters long with the bottom hole broken off. I copied the holes and left more room on the blow side for tone. The wider bamboo also gives more tone. It is said that the length of these vulture bones can be 1- 3 inches longer. With that information I found the right note in tune with the scale of the flute. I invite you to enjoy the You Tube clip to see what we have done. REASEARCH NOTES ON THE ICE AGE FLUTE: MUSIC MAKER: A new report concludes that people living in Europe more than 35,000 years ago made this flute, shown from three different angles, out of a vulture bone.
A magnified portion of the flute, top, provides a closer look at two of the flute's finger holes. Jensen/ U. of Tubingen Researchers working at two Stone Age German sites have unearthed a nearly complete flute made from a vulture’s forearm as well as sections of three mammoth-ivory flutes. These 35,000- to 40,000-year-old finds are the oldest known musical instruments in the world, says archaeologist and project director Nicholas Conard of the University of Tübingen in Germany . The bone flute, which excavators found in 12 pieces, and the ivory flutes were discovered in the summer of 2008 at Hohle Fels cave when modern humans first migrated to Europe .
The preserved portion of the bone flute is about 8.5 inches long and one-third of an inch wide. Finely incised lines near four finger holes probably indicated where to carve these openings using stone tools. (For 38 years Erik the flutemaker has been marking his flutes from his best master flutes to get great copies.) Musicians presumably blew into an end of the bone flute that contains two V-shaped notches. The researchers plan to make a replica of the ancient flute to investigate how it was played and what type of sounds it made. (See Erik’s You Tube thoughts below on how it was played.)
Notice: After 2 1/2 years of building the children's home in Cascabel, this fund raiser is over; the Big House is built. Now it's time to pay my bills with this flute. For more information on what Flutemaker Ministries is still doing visit www.FlutemakerMinistries.org
If you would like to display your flute we offer the Forbidden City Stand.
Letters from our Customers: Dear Erik, Hey Erik
I ordered the Ice Age Flute and a Pan Pipe and just wanted to say thank you. The quality is beyond mental speculation, I never would have imagined them to be that beautiful. Thank you!
Ryan in Iroquois, Ontario, Canada, April 2010
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