source file: mills2.txt Date: Sun, 6 Apr 1997 15:15:00 -0700 Subject: Re: Neanderthal flute From: Johnny Reinhard I agree with the challenge to the speculation that one can infer a tuning from an instrument that has lost its mouthpiece to time. This was the problem with Schlesinger's Greek Aulos computations...interesting numbers, however with no genuine relation to the double-reed instruments because they don't take into account embouchure, reed length, etc. On the other hand, the dating of this item and concurrent attribution to the Neanderthal line of primates is quite significant. The debate still rages whether we are descendents of this line, or not. I've heard some impassioned commentary regarding unscientific distortions of Neanderthal jaws, which are pushed out past their physiogamic relationships so that they seem more foreign to our own. A joke making the circles now is that early music is older than people. Johnny Reinhard Director 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@idt.net Received: from ns.ezh.nl [137.174.112.59] by vbv40.ezh.nl with SMTP-OpenVMS via TCP/IP; Mon, 7 Apr 1997 11:05 +0200 Received: by ns.ezh.nl; (5.65v3.2/1.3/10May95) id AA00886; Mon, 7 Apr 1997 11:05:48 +0200 Received: from ella.mills.edu by ns (smtpxd); id XA00884 Received: from by ella.mills.edu via SMTP (940816.SGI.8.6.9/930416.SGI) id CAA09034; Mon, 7 Apr 1997 02:04:15 -0700 Date: Mon, 7 Apr 1997 02:04:15 -0700 Message-Id: Errors-To: madole@mills.edu Reply-To: tuning@ella.mills.edu Originator: tuning@eartha.mills.edu Sender: tuning@ella.mills.edu