Bullroarer

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Magyar

Description

The bullroarer hungarian name is zúgattyú. The bullroarer is an ancient ritual musical instrument. Today, it is used for such a purpose in Subsaharan Africa and Ausztrália, but in Europe used as a child’s play. A bullroarer consists of a weighted aerofoil a rectangular thin slat of wood about 15-60 cm long and about 1,25-5 cm wide attached to a long cord. The cord is given a slight initial twist, and the roarer is then swung in a large circle in a horizontal plane, or in a smaller circle in a vertical plane.

Material/Technique

wood, cord

Measurements

Height: 25 cm; Widht: 4,5 cm;

Literature

H. Fekete Péter (1922): Zúgattyú–búgattyú. Ethnographia

Object from: Museum of Music History

- Since its foundation in 1969, the Institute of Music of the Hungarian Academy of Arts and Sciences has been collecting objects related to the...

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[Last update: 2023/10/24]

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