Travel of Georg Forster
New Caledonia (Nuova Caledonia - Grande Terre)
Title
A kind of musical instrument of New Caledonia
Short description
Georg Forster describes a kind of musical instrument that the natives brought with them to sell.
Text on source
They brought a musical instrument, a kind of whistle, for sale this day. It was a little polished piece of brown wood, about two inches long, shaped like a bell, though apparently solid, with a rope fixed at the small end. Two holes were made in it near the base, and another near the insertion of the rope, all which had some communication with each other, and by blowing in the uppermost, a shrill sound, like whistling, was formed at the other. Besides this, we never observed any instrument among them which had the least relation to music.
English translation
Folios/Pages
p. 398
Date
1774 09 07 circa
Observations on the events description
The dots on the map indicate the places where sound and music events were described. They don't represent travel stages.
Participants
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Role
Notes
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Cook, James
Travel fellow
How to quote
Fabbrocino A. P., "A kind of musical instrument of New Caledonia" (Event description), Echos. Sound Ecosystems in Travelogues. Published 2024 04 07.
doi: 10.25430/echos.travels.76
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