Cup Music ?

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I was messing about on the sarsens around Coldrum today, they are peppered with the usual weathered holes, and if you play them as small drums, they sound different. Never noticed it before, but some were a veritable 8-piece kit. That obviously got me wondering if cupmarks could be 'played' the same way. And indeed if it would be feasible to see a stone as a potential instrument..

As a side note, I met a guy there who greeted me with "What do you know?" to which I replied "What do you want to know?"...followed by a ten-minute mini-lecture on the place. He was a builder, and he was amazed that it was still standing. We discussed the stones-pushed-in or stones-pushed-out theories, and he marvelled that anything so big could be moved without machines...he's doing Addington over lunch tomorrow, and buying TMA as soon as he can lay his hands on it...

I love that story of the builder.

The guy just connected very deeply with people just like him who lived thousands of years ago and who looked on building a long-barrow in the same way he might look on the building of a semi.

For some reason I find that quite cool...

There has been some mention of cups being acoustic in some way. I think it got into Morriss' list of 100 reasons why people think rock art might have been made. Ringing stoes also. If I remember, I'll try and dig out a ref.

Kilmartin house museum has a neat stone xylophone in the entrance, made from particular slatey stones. Some kinds of stone are soundier than others apparently.