Primitive music 4: Limestone lithophone 🎵

[@MakeItPrimitive]

Just a reminder: As always, this is a silent video with subtitles. Please turn on the video captions for my notes and comments.

[@hili467]

This is such a wonderful demonstration! The one that broke, would the two halves been suitable to play?

[@MakeItPrimitive]

@@hili467 In principle yes, but due to their much smaller size, the note would have been a lot higher. Also, longish slabs sound cleaner than more square ones. There's no shortage of good pieces around here, so I just ditched those and got a new one.

[@hili467]

@@MakeItPrimitive of wow, that’s so interesting. Does that mean that each face/length has its own note?

[@MakeItPrimitive]

@@hili467 That's the gist of it, yes. The longer the slab, the deeper the note. There are other parameters, though: Denser materials produce a higher sound, for example. And reducing the thickness of the slab tunes it down a bit, as shown in the video.

[@Djwhiskers]

I like to imagine an ice-age father gathering stones like these and taking them back to his cave to play sweet melodies to his children around a warm fire to help them sleep in those dark and scary winter months

[@bigsisterreflections]

Nice imagination! Some caves had playable stalactite litophones but maybe the kids whom lived there preferred flutes and drums.

[@julien_mglhs]

I'm here for a whole orchestra made out of primitive instruments

[@autumnr.3724]

Yes

[@anomanassemieneve-prisca9559]

Congratulations. I'm very happy

[@jeanmarcguiriato7949]

Ah voilà ce que je cherchais merci . Très intéressant.

[@chucklearnslithics3751]

Hah! That was awesome! Encore!

[@michaelwagner4451]

Wahnsinn, klingt toll.

[@collinblazer6427]

I love this

[@williamwhite9481]

This is so awesome! I've been wanting to make one but could never find any good rocks for it.

[@BardofCornwall]

Very cool--thanks for sharing!

[@TheChadPad]

This is amazing. Thank you! Should have a bunch more views. It's just such a niche thing. But I'm glad you did it, cause I plan to make one for my music

[@MakeItPrimitive]

That's very cool! Let me know how it turned out! :-)

[@correspondancesfictives]

superbe😊

[@EokaBeamer69]

I wonder if prehistoric people made instruments like this but we never figured that out because to an archeologist they would just look like a random pile of stones. :D

[@JCTelenio]

Studying Thompson Motif A661.0.2.2 brought me here

[@uberpotato379]

Where Could I find limestone slabs? Does the instrument require, limestone?

[@MakeItPrimitive]

By living in a part of the world that was an ocean floor in the Jurassic or Cretaceous, I guess ;-) At least that's where all the limestone in my area comes from. I hardly find anything else but limestone around here. But it doesn't have to be limestone. Any dense, slab-like rock that is free of cracks should do. Slate seems to work fine, for example, as does flint. Let me know what you came up with!

[@clippedwings225]

"2c. Ruining the slab"

[@FishCakeIsland4928]

Wow kinda face reveal 3:22