source file: mills2.txt Date: Sat, 12 Apr 1997 08:20:01 -0700 Subject: RE: Neanderthal flute From: mr88cet@texas.net (Gary Morrison) >According to the photo in TNYTimes, 4 holes were punched into the femur of >a now extinct cave bear, visually equidistant. The outside rims of the >furthest holes have decayed. Perhaps you're saying the same thing in a different way, but the picture in the web page, shows the apparent instrument broken on both ends at toneholes, with only two completely intact toneholes between the break points. The distance between the two intact toneholes is clearly much larger than the distance between the end-most intact toneholes and the break points. That does seem to suggest that it played a unequal scale, but what that scale may be is hard to be sure of without having the embouchure hole intact. Received: from ns.ezh.nl [137.174.112.59] by vbv40.ezh.nl with SMTP-OpenVMS via TCP/IP; Sat, 12 Apr 1997 17:22 +0200 Received: by ns.ezh.nl; (5.65v3.2/1.3/10May95) id AA04078; Sat, 12 Apr 1997 17:22:55 +0200 Received: from ella.mills.edu by ns (smtpxd); id XA04076 Received: from by ella.mills.edu via SMTP (940816.SGI.8.6.9/930416.SGI) id IAA22546; Sat, 12 Apr 1997 08:21:15 -0700 Date: Sat, 12 Apr 1997 08:21:15 -0700 Message-Id: Errors-To: madole@mills.edu Reply-To: tuning@ella.mills.edu Originator: tuning@eartha.mills.edu Sender: tuning@ella.mills.edu