Folia archeologica 36.

Viola T. Dobosi: Ékszerek, hangszerek, különös tárgyak a magyarországi őskőkorban

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3 В3 Fig. 2. The possible ways of playing the Istállóskő bone flute. Darkened symbol denotes closed condition. 2. ábra Az istállóskői csontfuvola hangjainak fogástáblázata. A besötétített jel a zárt állapotot jelzi. broken section at the opposite end without increasing the length of the instrument. In short, during my experiments I closed one of the ends of the instrument using modern flutes as models. In this way a new possibility was created to try more voices than had been the case during earlier experiments. I think it probable, however, that originally both ends were closed since in case of an open end the covering of the finger-hole № 1 (Fig, 1,b) results a slight difference in pitch since it is situated very close to the end of the instrument. During his experiments, Z. Horusitzky also closed both ends of the bone flute.

2 Because of lack of knowledge of — the shape and dimensions of the original aperture — the exact length of the musical instrument — the method of playing — all already mentioned above — the reconstruction remains uncertain as re2 Ibid. 134. 3 Ibid. 134. 3*