Re: [MMM] Scottish lithophone

Robert Walker wrote:

> Thanks, look forward to the excerpts to hear what they sound like.
>
> I wonder - have a vague memory that in the early episodes of
> Scotland's music - which I heard
> on tape - that they had recordings of musical boulders in scotland.
>
> But perhaps not a musical scale.
>
> I remember also reading - in Paris they have an extremely ancient pile
> of musical
> boulders. Somewhere I came across a recording of it on the web, could
> look it up.
>
> Wait a minute, good old Google - here it is:
>
> http://www.rootsworld.com/rw/feature/vietnam.html
>
> scroll down to the Dan Da - same tuning (it says) as a rock pile now
> in Paris.
> 6000 year old stone xylophone.
>
> Robert
>

What a lovely site. Thanks for finding it Robert. Just the sort of thing
to be working on.

Best Wishes