source file: mills2.txt Date: Thu, 31 Oct 1996 17:58:52 -0800 Subject: Neanderthal flute From: "Adam B. Silverman" Johnny Reinhard said: >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.) The next question for those McMaster researchers to address was whether Neanderthals had proper lips and diaphragms for good flute technique; also, since it has four-holes, this find must certainly tell us that Neanderthals had a mere three digits per hand. Next comes the terrible question of how Neanderthals notated their pitches. Another question: did ASCAP distribute royalties for Neanderthals' campfire performances? -Adam _________________ Adam B. Silverman 153 Cold Spring Street; A3 New Haven, CT 06511 (203) 782-1765 abs22@pantheon.yale.edu Received: from ns.ezh.nl [137.174.112.59] by vbv40.ezh.nl with SMTP-OpenVMS via TCP/IP; Fri, 1 Nov 1996 03:06 +0100 Received: by ns.ezh.nl; (5.65v3.2/1.3/10May95) id AA03663; Fri, 1 Nov 1996 03:07:01 +0100 Received: from eartha.mills.edu by ns (smtpxd); id XA03861 Received: from by eartha.mills.edu via SMTP (940816.SGI.8.6.9/930416.SGI) for id SAA00633; Thu, 31 Oct 1996 18:06:58 -0800 Date: Thu, 31 Oct 1996 18:06:58 -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