Hands-on Sound Tools
The following sound tools – all made by Åke Egevad –are based on ancient models and/or on traditional models.
All the photographs of the hands-on instruments were taken by Jens Egevad
All the photographs of the hands-on instruments were taken by Jens Egevad
Aerophones
Bullroarers and Buzzers
01-Bullroarer-of-wood
Buzzer of pig's bone
Buzz disc of wood
Buzzer of wood
Bullroarer of bone
Bullroarer of bark
1. Bullroarer of wood (traditional)
2. Buzzer of pig’s bone (type model based on prehistoric, medieval and traditional buzz bones)
3. Buzz-disc of wood (traditional)
4. Buzzer of wood (traditional)
5. Bullroarer of bone (type model based on prehistoric finds)
6. Bullroarer of bark (traditional)
Horns
Cowhorn with three finger holes
Cowhorn with three finger holes
Oxhorn without finger holes
7 - 8. Cowhorns with three finger holes (type models based on prehistoric, medieval and traditional blowing horns)
9. Oxhorn without finger holes (traditional)
Trumpets
10-Wooden-trumpet
10. Wooden trumpets [”wooden lurs”] (based on a find of a Viking-Age wooden trumpet instrument from the ship’s grave Oseberg, Norway, c. 800 AD)
Whistles and Flutes
11-Whistle-of-boar-tusk
Whistle of boar's tusk
Whistle of sheep's bone
Whistle of sheep's bone
Whistle of sheep's bone
Whistle of sheep's bone
Whistle of sheep's bone
Whistle of sheep's bone
Whistle of bird's bone
Whistle of bird's bone
Whistle of bird's bone
Whistle of sheep's horn
23-Whistles-of-sheep-horn
Bone flute with five finger holes
Bone flute with two finger holes
11 - 12. Whistles of boar’s tusk (type models based on finds from a Neolithic cave in Gotland, Sweden, c. 3000-2000 BC)
13 - 18. Whistles of sheep’s bone (type models based on prehistoric, medieval and traditional bone whistles)
19 - 21. Whistles of bird’s bone (traditional)
22 - 23. Whistles of sheep’s horn (traditional)
24. Bone flute with five finger holes (type model based on medieval finds)
25. Bone flute with two finger holes (type model based on prehistoric, medieval and traditional bone flutes)
Chordophone
Musical Bow
26-Mouth-bow
26. ”Mouth bow” (based on a Mesolithic bog find from Scania, Sweden, c. 6000 BC)
Idiophones
Bells
27-Cowbell-of-iron
Iron pellet bell
27. Cowbell of iron (reconstructed after an Early Iron-Age find from Gotland, Sweden, c. 500-400 AD)
28. Iron pellet bell (reconstructed after a Viking-Age find from Västmanland, Sweden, c. 1000 AD)
Clappers
Clapper of cow horn
Clapper of bone
Clapper of bone
Clapper of bone
Clapper of bone
Clapper of bone
Clapper of bone
Clapper of wooden sticks
Clapper of fallow deer horns
Clapper of wooden plates
30. Clapper of cow horn (traditional)
31 - 36. Clappers of bone (traditional)
37. Clapper of wooden sticks (traditional)
38. Clapper of fallow deer horns (hypothetical sound tool based on the assumption that people in ancient times also used horns from fallow deer as clappers)
39. Clapper of wooden plates [in Swedish: snatterpinnar] (traditional)
Rattles
40-Vessel-rattle-of-animal-hide
Vessel rattle of animal hide
Rattle of bark
Vessel rattle of cow horn
Vessel rattle of cow horn
Rattle of hazel nuts
Bone rattle stick
Rattle of bronze for a bridle
Vessel rattle of pig's bladder
Rattle of bone
Rattle of bone
Rattle of bone
Rattle of bone
40 - 41. Vessel rattles of animal hide (traditional)
42. Rattle of bark (traditional)
43 - 44. Vessel rattles of cow horn (hypothetical rattles based on the assumption that people in ancient times also used cow horns as the empty body for rattling objects)
45. Rattle of hazel nuts (reconstructed after a Mesolithic bog find in Scania, Sweden, c. 6000 BC)
46. Bone rattle stick (type model of a medieval find from Vestfold, Norway)
47. Rattle of bronze for a bridle (type model of a Bronze-Age find from Gotland, Sweden, Late Bronze Age)
48. Vessel rattle of pig’s bladder (traditional)
49 - 52. Rattles of bone (type models based on different finds of Mesolithic, Neolithic and traditional bone rattles from Sweden)
Scrapers
Scraper of wood
Scraper of bone
Scraper of bone
53. Scraper of wood (traditional)
54 - 55. Scrapers of bone (type models based on Neolithic finds of possible scrapers)
Various
56-Percussion-sound-tool-of-animal-shoulderblade
Percussion sound tool of animal shoulderblade
Percussion sound tool of animal shoulderblade
Percussion sound tool of animal shoulderblade
Combined scraper and rattle of animal jaws with cockle shells
Combined scraper and rattle of animal jaws with cockle shells
Combined scraper and rattle of animal jaws with cockle shells
63-Combined-scraper-and-rattle-of-animal-jaw,-with-cockle-shells
Friction drum of bone
Percussion instrument from a whalnut shell.jpg "Percussion sound tool from a hollow woonden trunk - (traditional)")
Percussion sound tool from a hollow woonden trunk
.jpg "Percussion sound tool from a hollow woonden trunk - (traditional)")
56 - 59. Percussion sound tools of animal shoulderblade (type models based on the Palaeolithic ”percussion find” from Mezin, Ukraine)
60 - 63. Combined scraper and rattle of animal jaws, with cockle shells (type models based on a Neolithic find from Gotland, Sweden, c. 3000-2000 BC)
64. Friction drum of bone [in Swedish: skogsdjävul, in German: Waldteufel] (traditional)
65. Percussion instrument from a whalnut shell [in Swedish: valnötsmälla, krick krack, in French: cricri] (traditional)
66. Percussion sound tool from a hollow wooden trunk (traditional)
Photographer: Jens Egevad
