bullroarer
Sign in to saveAlso known as bull-roarer, bull-roarers, rhombus, turndun, thunderstick, whizzer
right|thumb|upright=1.3|Bullroarers from Africa in the Pitt Rivers Museum
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Vinony's link graph records 341 inbound references to bullroarer, and connects out to harmonica, Aboriginal Australians and triskaidekaphobia.
It is catalogued under topics including Amulets, Anthropology of religion and Australian Aboriginal bushcraft.
Vinony links it to 26 Wikipedia language editions.
Wikidata facts
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- Commons category
- Bullroarers
- earliest date
- 18000-00-0
- Hornbostel-Sachs classification
- 412.22
- described by source
- Encyclopædia Britannica 11th edition
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Encyclopedic overview
15 sectionsContents
- Design, use, and sound
- In culture
- Australian Aboriginal culture
- Ancient Greece
- Great Britain and Ireland
- Scandinavia
- Mali
- Polynesia
- Native North American
- Pomo
- Native South American
- See also
- References
- Other sources
- External links
right|thumb|upright=1.3|Bullroarers from Africa in the Pitt Rivers Museum
The bullroarer, rhombus, or turndun is an ancient ritual musical instrument and a device historically used for communicating over great distances. It consists of a piece of wood attached to a string, which when swung in a large circle produces a roaring vibration sound.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “bullroarer” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.