{"id":"MUS2026-196","label":"Belgian planchette ronflante","people_or_site":"Belgium, locality unrecorded — MIM Brussels inv. 2295","country_current":"Belgium","historic_region":"Belgium (locality unrecorded)","macroregion":"Europe / Western Europe","local_name":"planchette ronflante","source_term":"","source_language":"French","object_description":"Wooden toy blade on a cord, height 20.9 cm — Musical Instruments Museum, Brussels, inv. 2295 (KIK-IRPA object 11050599; production dated 1901-2000).","function_summary":"Catalogued as a toy; no locality or use narrative recorded.","attestation_type":"museum_specimen","source_key":"mim_brussels_2295","source_type":"museum_collection","source_url":"https://balat.kikirpa.be/object/11050599","page_or_plate":"KIK-IRPA BALaT 11050599 / cliche M131915","map_confidence":"low","plot_status":"plot_with_caveat","coordinate_basis":"Museum anchor at Brussels: the record gives only 'Belgique' as production place.","jade_complex_role":"","blurb":"The Brussels instrument museum keeps, among its serious holdings, one planchette ronflante — a 'snoring little board' of plain wood, twenty-one centimetres, with its whirling cord. Nobody wrote down whose hand it came from or what village it hummed over; it stands in the national collection for every Belgian child's roarer that never reached a museum at all.","pull_quote":"","pull_quote_translation":"","pull_quote_cite":"","term_gloss":"planchette ronflante — French, 'snoring little board'; the museum's genre name for the toy bullroarer.","cls":"play_practical","class_label":"Play / practical","color":"#24766D","is_candidate":false,"flags":["toy_survival"],"f_jade_complex":false,"f_women_taboo":false,"f_women_special":false,"f_snake":false,"sources":[{"citation":"KIK-IRPA BALaT object 11050599: 'Planchette ronflante', MIM Brussels inv. 2295, wood and cord, produced in Belgium, 1901-2000, height 20.9 cm","url":"https://balat.kikirpa.be/object/11050599","archive":"https://web.archive.org/web/20261013023410/https://balat.kikirpa.be/object/11050599"}],"source_citations":"KIK-IRPA BALaT object 11050599: 'Planchette ronflante', MIM Brussels inv. 2295, wood and cord, produced in Belgium, 1901-2000, height 20.9 cm","source_display":"KIK-IRPA BALaT object 11050599: 'Planchette ronflante', MIM Brussels inv. 2295, wood and cord, produced in Belgium, 1901-2000, height 20.9 cm","date_citation_display":"","object_display":"Wooden toy blade on a cord, height 20.9 cm — Musical Instruments Museum, Brussels, inv. 2295 (KIK-IRPA object 11050599; production dated 1901-2000).","function_display":"Catalogued as a toy; no locality or use narrative recorded.","confidence_display":"low","attestation_label":"museum specimen","etymology_hedge":"","people_key":"belgium","display_name":"Belgian planchette ronflante","image":{"full":"assets/objects/MUS2026-196_mim2295_kikirpa.jpg","thumb":"assets/objects/MUS2026-196_mim2295_kikirpa_thumb.jpg","alt":"The Brussels planchette ronflante, a wooden humming board with its cord, MIM inv. 2295.","credit":"KIK-IRPA, Brussels (Belgium), cliche M131915 — MIM inv. 2295","license":"CC BY 4.0","source_page":"https://balat.kikirpa.be/photo/M131915","rehosted":true,"representative":false,"caption":"The Brussels planchette ronflante on its cord — MIM inv. 2295."},"slug":"mus2026-196-belgium-locality-unrecorded-mim-brussels-inv-2295"}