There was an item on the news tonight - and I missed a bit of it - about a find of pipes or flute like instruments which are reckoned to pre-historic in South Dublin. On the TV they looked like old bamboo flutes. The vessel they were found in is considered to be about 2,000 bc and they have managed to get some notes from the instruments. They think they could be the oldest musical instruments discovered. Investigations ongoing - hope I haven't gotten this upside down. Anyone else heard anything about this?
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Will they bury this site in concrete, just like they did with the Viking settlement on the Quays...early 80s?
Seems to ring a bell, I was still in NW England and travelling round Ireland a lot...for those who don't know, a Viking settlement, maybe ship even. was found on the Liffey... classic dig and all that... and bury it in concrete to put up a new Dublin development...so the memory bank seems to say. Did they ever oppose it?
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Brian
Nowadays they have to tread more carefully with these finds as there was such an outcry over Wood Quay Viking Settlement.
There was another find in the last week of a settlement in County Meath I think and there is a road being built through it. I think they're allowing time for excavations and then will build over it.
PRE HISTORIC MUSICAL INSTRUMENT FIND IN DUBLIN
PRE HISTORIC MUSICAL INSTRUMENT FIND IN DUBLIN
There was an item on the news tonight - and I missed a bit of it - about a find of pipes or flute like instruments which are reckoned to pre-historic in South Dublin. On the TV they looked like old bamboo flutes. The vessel they were found in is considered to be about 2,000 bc and they have managed to get some notes from the instruments. They think they could be the oldest musical instruments discovered. Investigations ongoing - hope I haven't gotten this upside down. Anyone else heard anything about this?
# Posted on May 6th 2004 by MollyB
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This is an interesting site also. I had bookmarked this awhile ago, so this is old talk about Old News, as it were...
http://homepage.eircom.net/~bronzeagehorns/
# Posted on May 6th 2004 by gena
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Comhaltas will be pleased ...
Trevor
# Posted on May 6th 2004 by Trevor Jennings
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Can we now declare that anything less than 4,000 years old cannot be considered traditional?
# Posted on May 6th 2004 by Bren
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Perhaps the stash of 4,500 year-old piano accordions is yet to be found....
# Posted on May 6th 2004 by Will Harmon
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Keep digging - you may eventually unearth an even older bodhrán but don't tell Mr Duffy!!
# Posted on May 6th 2004 by Bannerman
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It would be easy to find out exactly what they are. Just ask Paddy Moloney, I think he would be just starting to learn the pipes around that time!
# Posted on May 6th 2004 by iainsm
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I do believe that I have come across a number of dinosaurs playing a variety of instruments in the past number of years, so this comes as no surprise!
# Posted on May 6th 2004 by Feargal French
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Well you guys know what this means, ITM was the original style of music that is pretty cool.
# Posted on May 6th 2004 by Why Bother?
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no, here's something older (sorry if I burst someone's bubble)
http://www.webster.sk.ca/greenwich/fl-compl.htm
Tim
# Posted on May 6th 2004 by loscann7
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Will they bury this site in concrete, just like they did with the Viking settlement on the Quays...early 80s?
Seems to ring a bell, I was still in NW England and travelling round Ireland a lot...for those who don't know, a Viking settlement, maybe ship even. was found on the Liffey... classic dig and all that... and bury it in concrete to put up a new Dublin development...so the memory bank seems to say. Did they ever oppose it?
Make sure this one doesn't fall off the Earth!
Bx
# Posted on May 6th 2004 by briantheflute
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Another ancient instrument and an interesting project - reconstructing the Harp of Ur:
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/cambridgeshire/3445049.stm
# Posted on May 7th 2004 by Nell
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Brian
Nowadays they have to tread more carefully with these finds as there was such an outcry over Wood Quay Viking Settlement.
There was another find in the last week of a settlement in County Meath I think and there is a road being built through it. I think they're allowing time for excavations and then will build over it.
# Posted on May 7th 2004 by MollyB
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//// damn, is that where I left it? ////
that's the last time I'm goin on the raz in dublin.
# Posted on May 7th 2004 by Murrough
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South Dublin? Must be drawing room ornaments... Now, if it was the Northside, I could believe these were authentic working flutes
# Posted on May 7th 2004 by grego
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Leo Rowesome made them.
Johnathan
# Posted on May 7th 2004 by Harper_Lad
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Were they played by prehistoric members of Comhaltas, many of whom still seem to be alive and well and adjudicating at Fleadhs
# Posted on May 7th 2004 by breandan
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I wonder ir they had sessions back then...
# Posted on May 9th 2004 by Why Bother?
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What about the Roman fort supposed to have been found near Dublin?
# Posted on May 9th 2004 by Pied Piper
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...a bodhran would be considered to be an ancient shovel then...
gunther
# Posted on May 12th 2004 by adae