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I'd like to ask for advice concerning a bone flute recovered from Pleistocene strata in central Texas. Has anyone seen this partricular style of flute...

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I'm scouring the web and learning a bunch about small flutes and aerophones. Here's a great link to a S. American bone flute (got to scroll down a...

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Afternoon, Tom.The audio sounds very cool!! And mysterious. Do You want me to upload it and post a link?You might be right about the mouthpiece: That would allow the necessary distance between the...

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Charlie, it would be great if you could upload the Audio file and put a link here. I'll keep messing around with this idea for certain. I'm having fun. Tom

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Here we go:cayman.globat.com/~bandst...20Echo.wav Maybe when you get some time you could record some raw recordings also.

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I had an uncle who made and used a similar river cane flute when I was young. he died when I was 7, so I asked my Grandmother about it.He was taught by an elderly Cherokee man, the node should be...

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Interesting story, Dabbler.Thanks for sharing.

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Quote:Charlie, it would be great if you could upload the Audio file and put a link here. Morning, Tom.You were tinkering with the layout of the central Texas bone flute a couple of weeks ago. I want...

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Charlie, I was thinking yesterday that I'd kind of dropped the ball on my experiments with this small flute (I was listening to the recording I'd made).I'll try to get back to this soon. And there's...

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Totally understood, Tom. I'm glad you're still interested. And no hurry, I've learned that archeology is very much a field where much patience is needed. Again, I'm just glad you're still interested....

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"...That sure looks like a piece of bamboo that was a flute. The right end of the second shot shows the grain that appears when a node has a branch broken off. Reguardless what material it is the...

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"...I just managed to get another interesting note by actually inserting my pinky into the top hole. It does indeed step up from hole 2..." Blackfeather

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If I didn't have anything but the pictures I would guess the artifact was rivercane not bone - cane instruments are made with that exact choke design to this day in S. America... I agree with this and...

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Looking at the pictures and where it was found I would guess it is more like a Anasazi. I could easly imagine the natives seeing a anasazi rather than a Quena. Reguardless of the style it was a very...

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lennyharp wrote: If I didn't have anything but the pictures I would guess the artifact was rivercane not bone - cane instruments are made with that exact choke design to this day in S. America... I...

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Flyfsh wrote: Looking at the pictures and where it was found I would guess it is more like a Anasazi. I could easly imagine the natives seeing a anasazi rather than a Quena. Reguardless of the style...

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The anasazi and quena embrouhure are close to the same. No choke in the anasazi or quena that could just have been a variation by the maker. Anasazi were closer to Texas and would make since the texas...

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Quite possibly. One thing I've noted is both the Aymara and Pueblo have a very high percentage of American maternal Haplogroup B within their populations:...

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Something that gets my attention is the shape of the finger holes. I have only been making flutes for a few years and have never studied them except just a little about the anasazi because that is the...

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Flyfsh wrote: Something that gets my attention is the shape of the finger holes. I have only been making flutes for a few years and have never studied them except just a little about the anasazi...

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