Prehistoric flute in Germany is oldest known

Associated Press ^ | Jun 24, 2009 | Patrick McGroarty

[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.

[decimon]

Fleutonic ping.

[RushIsMyTeddyBear]

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

[tatsinfla]

must be ian anderson relative’s

[texmexis best]

I wonder what the scale sounds like?

[decimon]

I wonder what the scale sounds like?

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

[Grut]

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.

[Leo Farnsworth]

I believe that early Egyptians put their deceased Pharaohs 'skin flutes' into ceramic vessels, surely these must be older...

[pabianice]

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

[JoeProBono]

nose flute

[bgill]

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.

[decimon]

Flute flout, Grut?

[IrishPennant]

Bier straw with high pressure release ports...

[RushIsMyTeddyBear]

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

[RushIsMyTeddyBear]

LOL!

[MaestroLC]

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.”

[RushIsMyTeddyBear]

Cheers! I’ll check it out.

[ThinkingBuddha]

Stone age civilizations could be culturally very advanced. The Native Americans and Hawaiians were essentially stone age civilizations.

[paulycy]

The Committee to Beat Jean-Pierre Rampal Severely About the Head and Shoulders With James Galway

ROFL!

[SunkenCiv]

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