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    The bullroarer, rhombus, or turndun, is an ancient ritual musical instrument and a device historically used for communicating over great distances. It...
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  • A bullroarer is a ritual sound instrument and an ancient communication device used for communicating over greatly extended distances. Bullroarer may also...
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  • with digging. The Sackville-Bagginses, acquisitive cousins to Bilbo. Bullroarer Took, a historical figure mentioned as the Old Took's great grand-uncle...
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  • some critics felt they reinforced the "primitive" stereotype. Use of the bullroarer was criticised as belonging to sacred rituals, and therefore not appropriate...
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  • Additionally, pierced phalanges (usually interpreted as "phalangeal whistles"), bullroarers, and rasps have also been discovered. The latter musical finds date back...
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    birimbau bodhrán bombard bouzouki & Irish bouzouki brommtopp bukkehorn bullroarer cajón catá cavaquinho chajchas charango çifteli cimbalom çığırtma claves...
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  • Rincewind idly twirls the bullroarer, which soon begins to fly faster and farther than it should. Rincewind lets go and the bullroarer flies off; immediately...
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    call seen in the opening credits of hit television series Skippy. The bullroarer (or bull roarer) is an instrument used in ceremonial ritual. It consists...
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    would answer with a "darker" sound. Such instrument pairs also included bullroarers, slit drums, shell trumpets, and skin drums. Cultures who used these...
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    5236 Axe of Perun Azusa Yumi Bonshō Brigid's cross Broom (Besom) Bulla Bullroarer Carnyx Celtic cross Cimaruta Cornicello Crepundia Corn dolly Corn husk...
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    altered state caused by drug use), but an "invocation of spirit" with the bullroarer and communal dancing to drum and pipe. The trances are described in familiar...
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    Progenitor Yoruba People Yoruba Religion Orisha Yorubaland Orò Justice, Bullroarers Yoruba People Yoruba Religion Orisha Yorubaland Oronsen Progenitor Yoruba...
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    Bukkehorn aerophones 421.221.42 Norway, Sweden fipple flutes ocarina Bullroarer aerophones 41 Ancient civilizations noise makers sirens Calliope aerophones...
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  • cooked and ate them. His hunger sated, he lay down to sleep again and a bullroarer emerged from under his armpit. It took on human form and grew into a young...
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    and machine noises, perhaps supplemented by gongs, percussive rhythms, bullroarers, distorted voices or anything else the artist might care to sample (often...
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  • a finger cymbal known as a Ching, as well as other effects such as a bullroarer throughout the album. On 17 May 1999, during the final recording and mixing...
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    Progenitor Yoruba People Yoruba Religion Orisha Yorubaland Orò Justice, Bullroarers Yoruba People Yoruba Religion Orisha Yorubaland Oronsen Progenitor Yoruba...
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  • 40-member string ensemble mimicking the sound of an archaic instrument called bullroarer. The score album was released by Back Lot Music on April 15, 2022, and...
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  • of the eastern Kimberley region and Arnhem Land (such as the Yolngu). Bullroarers and clapsticks were used across Australia. Songlines relate to the Dreamtime...
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  • which Mick, with the help of his Aboriginal friends he summoned with a bullroarer, reduces the opposition's numbers one by one, leaving the rest increasingly...
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    on a large button and is a common and easily made toy. A buzzer (buzz, bullroarer, button-on-a-string) is an ancient mechanical device used for ceremonial...
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    instruments which, when played, do not contain the vibrating air. The bullroarer is one example. These are called free aerophones. This class includes...
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    percussion, which included a self-modified drum kit, assorted toys, a bullroarer, mbira, gongs, balloons, thunder sheet and chains. On stage, Muir also...
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    Progenitor Yoruba People Yoruba Religion Orisha Yorubaland Orò Justice, Bullroarers Yoruba People Yoruba Religion Orisha Yorubaland Oronsen Progenitor Yoruba...
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  • : 2  thunderstorms, eclipses, eruptions, glaciers, and the sound of a bullroarer.: 14–17  If mana is a distinct power, it may be treated distinctly. Marett...
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  • with Hecate: "The Byzantine polymath Michael Psellus [...] speaks of a bullroarer, consisting of a golden sphere, decorated throughout with symbols and...
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    Baseball superstition Beginner's luck Black cat Bread and butter Break a leg Bullroarer Chain letter Cramp-ring Curse Davy Jones' Locker Dead man's hand End-of-the-day...
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    Baseball superstition Beginner's luck Black cat Bread and butter Break a leg Bullroarer Chain letter Cramp-ring Curse Davy Jones' Locker Dead man's hand End-of-the-day...
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  • Kate Bush – lead and backing vocals; piano; Fairlight CMI Paddy Bush – bullroarer; backing vocals Rolf Harris – didgeridoo Stuart Elliott – drums Percy...
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  • bellowing. Bawling is most common for cows after weaning of a calf. The bullroarer makes a sound similar to a bull's territorial call. "Cattle Terminology"...
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