Comments on: Mexican aerophones

Mexican aerophones

dhruva — Tue, 01 Jul 2008 01:28:08 -0800

Mexican Aerophones are wind musical instruments or artifacts that can generate sounds or noise with air jets and one or several resonator chambers of globular, tubular and other shapes. Roberto Velasquez, a mechanical engineer, has recreated some of these aerophones. Example sounds: 1, 2, 3, 4, 5 (.wav files)

By: chuckdarwin

chuckdarwin — Tue, 01 Jul 2008 01:45:40 -0800

Main link is borked.

By: flapjax at midnite

flapjax at midnite — Tue, 01 Jul 2008 01:49:32 -0800

Bummer. I'm getting Sorry, Service Temporarily Unavailable for the audio files, as well as for practically every link from that first page. Otherwise, this is a post after my own heart... From the 2nd link: "Noisemakers made of natural materials were integral part of life" Well, considering we're talking pre-Colombian, I reckon synthetic materials would've been a bit unlikely!

By: Phanx

Phanx — Tue, 01 Jul 2008 02:10:46 -0800

Very interesting - but it really needs to be somewhere better than Geocities.

By: Eideteker

Eideteker — Tue, 01 Jul 2008 07:39:47 -0800

Is coral cache still around?

By: tellurian

tellurian — Tue, 01 Jul 2008 08:39:48 -0800

That's freaky. 3 and 5 sound very much much like birds hanging around and chatting with a bit of aggression. 1, 2, and 4 are like full on birds of prey that are about to descend on you and rip you apart. I choose 3 and 5. "including some of unknown use" Dog callers, maybe.

By: mkim

mkim — Tue, 01 Jul 2008 18:42:50 -0800

That was terrifying.