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Q122: Find the connection

Ranko
Member
#1 · Posted: 14 Jan 2007 11:45
OK gang, something quick to keep things moving.

What is the connection between a musical instrument and the shin bone?
Which book can we find it in?
Captain Chester
Member
#2 · Posted: 15 Jan 2007 03:06
The bone flute in prisoners of the sun

CC
Ranko
Member
#3 · Posted: 15 Jan 2007 10:23
Well done Captain Chester!

Page 46 of Prisoners shows Snowy chewing on a bone which turns out to be a 'Dead Mans Flute' made from a Tibia.

The Incas played two basic kinds of instrument. Wind and percussion. Drums and Flutes being the most common kind of instrument and could be made of wood, shell, pottery and bone. (Llama or human!)

A point to you and the next question if you may :-)
jock123
Moderator
#4 · Posted: 15 Jan 2007 13:05
Ranko
Drums and Flutes being the most common kind of instrument and could be made of wood, shell, pottery and bone. (Llama or human!)
They had actual examples of human bone flutes in the With Tintin to Tibet exhibition when I saw it in the Netherlands - it was really quite grizzly! Not quite on a par with the Inca mummy in Brussels, but certainly sort of low-level yeuch!
Ranko
Member
#5 · Posted: 15 Jan 2007 13:55
Excellent! They would sound great in a band...

"Tintin and The Tibias"

:-)

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