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Bullroarer

Oro, bullroarer, free aerophone. A light piece of wood, worked with metal tools into a narrow rectangular shape with a triangular point at one end. Near the opposite end is a hole through which a black cotton string is threaded.

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  • Materials:vegetable fibre, wood
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  • Hornbostel-Sachs category:412.22 Whirling aerophones
  • Repository:Horniman Museum and Gardens