Absolutely amazing to rethink that history we know may really be the history of music we will never hear.... Thanks Raha Rafii for sharing. “The percentage of the rocks on the Carn Menyn ridge are ringing rocks, they ring just like a bell,” Paul Deveraux, an investigator with the project, told the BBC. “In fact, we have had percussionists who have played proper percussion pieces off the rocks,” he added. They sound so much like a bell, in fact, that churches in the region used them as their bells until the 1700s. A nearby village is named Maenclochog, meaning ringing rocks. When the English government gave the team permission to test the rocks at Stonehenge, they expected disappointing results. Many of the rocks have been weathered by millennia of elements, and others are lodged seemingly too far in the ground to make any sound. So it was to their pleasant surprise when a number of rocks, when struck, made “distinctive (if muted) sounds.” They judged that enough made sounds such that once, they all would have rung, and furthermore saw marks on the rocks that might—upon further forensic testing—prove to be strike marks. In other words, Stonehenge seems to be made of ringing rocks. Deveraux’s team thinks that the rocks were chosen for this exact feature.
Posted on: Thu, 06 Mar 2014 04:54:36 +0000
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