source file: mills2.txt Date: Wed, 30 Oct 1996 15:49:52 -0800 Subject: Re: Neanderthals, et al. From: Johnny Reinhard Adam has been dropping hints about the Tuesday (10/29/96) NYTimes article on a Neanderthal instrument that has been found in Slovakia. Until this find it was commonly thought that the "art" was the province of Cro-magnon. The photo of the instrument indicaters a 4-hole instrument with only the middle 2 in good shape. The holes were apparently punched through a smaller cave bear's femur. Though it is called a flute throughout the article, there is nothing left of what initiated the sound (e.g. single edge, shakuhachi, fipple, etc.) Microtonal, no doubt. Johnny Reinhard American Festival of Microtonal Music 318 East 70th Street, Suite 5FW New York, New York 10021 USA (212)517-3550/fax (212) 517-5495 reinhard@ios.com Received: from ns.ezh.nl [137.174.112.59] by vbv40.ezh.nl with SMTP-OpenVMS via TCP/IP; Thu, 31 Oct 1996 04:14 +0100 Received: by ns.ezh.nl; (5.65v3.2/1.3/10May95) id AA02524; Thu, 31 Oct 1996 04:15:17 +0100 Received: from eartha.mills.edu by ns (smtpxd); id XA05222 Received: from by eartha.mills.edu via SMTP (940816.SGI.8.6.9/930416.SGI) for id TAA04005; Wed, 30 Oct 1996 19:15:14 -0800 Date: Wed, 30 Oct 1996 19:15:14 -0800 Message-Id: Errors-To: madole@ella.mills.edu Reply-To: tuning@eartha.mills.edu Originator: tuning@eartha.mills.edu Sender: tuning@eartha.mills.edu