Blow this: The Deskford Carnyx

Subject: Blow this thing
From: Dave Swan
Date: 14 Sep 00 - 04:09 PM

You were probably thinking to yourself just this morning "Geez, you don't hear much about carnyx players anymore". Well, here's a website for ya.

You'll learn all about the Iron Age lip-reed instrument shaped to resemble a wild boar, with a movable tongue and jaw.

Catspaw, in his worst delirium, couldn't have dreamed this up.

The Deskford Carnyx

Subject: RE: Blow this
From: Dave Swan
Date: 14 Sep 00 - 04:10 PM

Well, my lifetime blue clicky average remains 0. I'll try again.

Subject: RE: Blow this
From: Dave Swan
Date: 14 Sep 00 - 04:15 PM

click

Subject: RE: Blow this
From: MMario
Date: 14 Sep 00 - 04:17 PM

The Deskford Carnyx

El Swanno - you were only 1 character off!

Subject: RE: Blow this
From: Noreen
Date: 14 Sep 00 - 04:25 PM

The suspense is killing me, Dave. Pleeze try again!

Noreen

Subject: RE: Blow this
From: katlaughing
Date: 14 Sep 00 - 04:38 PM

El Swanno, that is faaarrrrr-out!!! Thanks! Very interesting!

Subject: RE: Blow this
From: Liz the Squeak
Date: 14 Sep 00 - 04:42 PM

Woooooooooooooooooooooo! Go toot that horn man!!

LTS

Subject: RE: Blow this
From: Biskit
Date: 14 Sep 00 - 05:00 PM

If the horn didn't scare em the noise probably would. Any idea what it sounds like??-Biskit-

Subject: RE: Blow this
From: Biskit
Date: 14 Sep 00 - 05:00 PM

If the horn didn't scare em the noise probably would. Any idea what it sounds like??-Biskit-

Subject: RE: Blow this
From: Kim C
Date: 14 Sep 00 - 05:10 PM

heeheehee I bet they drank beer out of it too heeheehee

Subject: RE: Blow this
From: Jeri
Date: 14 Sep 00 - 05:15 PM

Biskit, there are links to recordings with samples from them.

Subject: RE: Blow this
From: Biskit
Date: 14 Sep 00 - 05:43 PM

Thanks for the link Jeri, but I couldn't get it to work. Actually,my imagination is really a terrible thing, I keep invisioning two great Scotts armies on opposing hills, the wind blowin' fierce, hair and Kilts being whipped `round both great armies waitin' word from their captains,at the critical moment the trumpeteer whips out his he he....Oh Gawd wait(convulsive laughter)his mighty carynx and blows a long raspberry! OH GEEZUS! I'm gonna have a coronary!!!!

Subject: RE: Blow this
From: catspaw49
Date: 14 Sep 00 - 07:11 PM

Blow this? Well blow me............Cleigh and I are deeply impressed. I don't reckon this guy has much competition for first chair in the Weirdo Ensemble does he?

Spaw

Subject: RE: Blow this
From: Dave Swan
Date: 14 Sep 00 - 11:38 PM

Not unless there's a tiple player in the house.

Subject: RE: Blow this
From: MMario
Date: 15 Sep 00 - 09:36 AM

I listened to the samples - some of them just sound wierd (almost electronic) to me, but some are more musical.

Subject: RE: Blow this
From: Biskit
Date: 15 Sep 00 - 03:25 PM

mebee I'll try that link again.-Biskit-

Subject: RE: Blow this
From: Biskit
Date: 15 Sep 00 - 03:30 PM

Nope still won't work from here.

Subject: RE: Blow this
From: SINSULL
Date: 15 Sep 00 - 03:40 PM

If they had truly thought this thing through, they would have equipped it with mirrors and had the advantage of periscoping up on their enemies. Or with mirrors and the proper seals a method for sneaking up on the enemy from the water and scaring the crap out of them with the sound. Maybe that's where the Nessie story started.

Subject: RE: Blow this
From: Banjer
Date: 16 Sep 00 - 07:10 AM

I don't reckon this guy has much competition for first chair in the Weirdo Ensemble does he?

I'm impressed with 'Spaw that he would even consider giving up HIS spot.

Subject: RE: Blow this
From: rabbitrunning
Date: 16 Sep 00 - 07:51 AM

Biskit, try http://www.carnyx.mcmail.com/voice.htm for the recordings.

Very odd!

Kind of explains bagpipes, tho.

Subject: RE: Blow this
From: Bill D
Date: 16 Sep 00 - 05:04 PM

if you like the old instruments, this page has links to, and sound files of, the crumhorn, cornamuse, hirtenschalmei, and bladderpipe. (I have .wav files of them saved so I can play them anytime..*grin*...they make 'different' Windows sounds, too)

Subject: RE: Blow this
From: Lena
Date: 17 Sep 00 - 08:43 AM

Now you blow me this other one.I was given a cd of sacred music from Corsica and Sardinia and they play a THREE reeds flute.Anyone having a picture of it,feel free to impress me...

Subject: RE: Blow this
From: Bill D
Date: 18 Sep 00 - 12:53 AM

*smile*...your wish is my command..(search AltaVista Advanced for "flute near Sardinia")

http://www.teta.it/narada/Launeddas.html

http://sardinia.net/sonus/launeda.htm

http://www.tronos.net/trolaun.htm

Subject: RE: Blow this
From: Roger in Sheffield
Date: 27 Oct 00 - 03:06 PM

In the latest Folk Roots magazine KATHRYN TICKELL & Ensemble Mystical are pictured. One guy is holding a carnyx, its a great picture but I can't find a copy anywhere on the web. So you'll have to make do with a link to the CD
KT&EM
anyone heard the CD yet???

Roger

Subject: RE: Blow this
From: Clinton Hammond2
Date: 27 Oct 00 - 03:18 PM

I really gotta get me one of these things... but did you folks read the fine print??

"The idea of a Pan-European Celtic culture is a myth"

Hahahahahaha! Just what I've always said...

Keep your lame 8 note bag-pipes and your plaid skirts and all that modern plastic, 'posing-for-shortbread-tins' cashing in on invented culture... THIS is what the 'celts' were like...

Ya gotta love 'em!!!

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Subject: RE: Blow this
From: rangeroger
Date: 28 Oct 00 - 02:20 AM

Instead of a Pan-european Celtic culture, how about a Pan-American Celtic culture?

Last Sunday's local paper had an article about some archaeologists in Colorado who say rock art there proves the Celts were in Colorado 2000 years ago.

rr

Subject: RE: Blow this
From: catspaw49
Date: 28 Oct 00 - 02:35 AM

And the best they could do was Coor's? Doesn't sound too authentic to me rr...........

Spaw

Subject: RE: Blow this
From: Thyme2dream
Date: 28 Oct 00 - 02:57 AM

HEY!!! I recognize this!!! I saw this thing 'live' in the museum in Edinburgh. I remember wondering how it would sound, thanks for the links everyone.

Subject: RE: Blow this
From: Clinton Hammond2
Date: 28 Oct 00 - 02:23 PM

RR...

Ummmm... no... Not likley at all... More likley it's rock art that 'resembles' so called celtic art...

But most Stone and Bronze age mud dwellers resemble each other...

I know they all look the same to me...

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