{"id":17618,"date":"2018-09-22T11:50:06","date_gmt":"2018-09-22T16:50:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/?p=17618"},"modified":"2018-09-22T11:50:06","modified_gmt":"2018-09-22T16:50:06","slug":"musical-instrument-of-the-day","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/2018\/09\/22\/musical-instrument-of-the-day\/","title":{"rendered":"Musical Instrument Of The Day"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>It&#8217;s the Carnyx, which <em><strong>Discover Magazine<\/strong><\/em> <a href=\"http:\/\/discovermagazine.com\/carnyx\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">helpfully talked about<\/a> a few months ago:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>The carnyx was a terrifying instrument. Brandished in battle against Roman invaders, the Celtic horn was taller than a horse, resembled the head of a boar and produced \u201ca harsh sound which suits the tumult of war,\u201d in the words of one ancient historian. But Scottish archaeologists studying one of the most complete surviving examples \u2014 excavated from a bog in 1816 \u2014 wanted to actually <em>hear<\/em> it. So they commissioned metalsmith John Creed to craft a replica in bronze and brass. Four hundred hours of meticulous work, using Iron Age techniques, resulted in an instrument that would do a Celt proud.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>And here it is:<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Celts: The sound of the carnyx\" width=\"800\" height=\"450\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/auR-lJfzTeY?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Peeper, our stripey cat, hated it. Mayhem doesn&#8217;t seem to mind it so much. Here&#8217;s another sample by the same artist:<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"The Voice of the Carnyx (Ancient Celtic music)\" width=\"800\" height=\"450\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/EOR7VKcSb9k?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It&#8217;s the Carnyx, which Discover Magazine helpfully talked about a few months ago: The carnyx was a terrifying instrument. Brandished in battle against Roman invaders, the Celtic horn was taller than a horse, resembled the head of a boar and produced \u201ca harsh sound which suits the tumult of war,\u201d \u2026 <a class=\"continue-reading-link\" href=\"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/2018\/09\/22\/musical-instrument-of-the-day\/\"> Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr; <\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-17618","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17618","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=17618"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17618\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":17619,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17618\/revisions\/17619"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=17618"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=17618"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=17618"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}