{"id":"SOINUENEA2026-002","label":"Lezo whetstone burrunda","people_or_site":"Mikel Salaberria of Martizkone farm, Lezo","country_current":"Spain","historic_region":"Lezo, Gipuzkoa, Basque Country (Oarsoaldea)","macroregion":"Europe / Iberia","local_name":"burrunda","source_term":"burrunda","source_language":"Basque","object_description":"A scythe whetstone tied to a cord, either through a hole bored with difficulty at one end or in a notch cut for it; reconstructed to Mikel Salaberria’s description in 2010 (JMB 1432).","function_summary":"A boy’s sound toy, played alone; Salaberria played it at about twelve, in the 1940s.","attestation_type":"ethnographic_attestation","source_key":"soinuenea_burrunda_lezo","source_type":"instrument_encyclopedia","source_url":"https://www.soinuenea.eus/eu/entziklopedia/burruna/er-88/","page_or_plate":"\"Burrunda, burrunba, harria\"; note 9; JMB 1432","map_confidence":"medium_high","plot_status":"plot","coordinate_basis":"Lezo municipality (OpenStreetMap administrative centre); Martizkone farm, the informant’s birthplace, is not separately located and is not asserted as the playing place.","jade_complex_role":"","blurb":"Every scythe in the hay meadows of Gipuzkoa had its whetstone, a long narrow stone drawn along the blade to keep its edge. Mikel Salaberria, born in 1932 on the Martizkone farm at Lezo, turned one into a burrunda when he was about twelve. The stone could be tied to its cord in two ways: by boring a hole through one end, slow and stubborn work, or by cutting a notch for the string to bite. He played it on his own, never with a group.","pull_quote":"Harria sokarekin bi modutan lotzen omen zen: mutur batean kostata zuloa eginda edo bestela koska bat eginez.","pull_quote_translation":"The stone was tied to the cord in two ways: by boring a hole at one end, which took some doing, or else by cutting a notch.","pull_quote_cite":"Soinuenea, Euskal Herriko soinu-tresnen entziklopedia, “Burruna” (Mikel Salaberria, recorded by Juan Mari Beltran, 2010)","term_gloss":"burrunda: the Lezo name for the burruna, the Basque 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":"Soinuenea Herri Musikaren Txokoa, Euskal Herriko soinu-tresnen entziklopedia, “Burruna” (Basque text). Mikel Salaberria testimony, Lezo, 2010.","url":"https://www.soinuenea.eus/eu/entziklopedia/burruna/er-88/"}],"source_citations":"Soinuenea Herri Musikaren Txokoa, Euskal Herriko soinu-tresnen entziklopedia, “Burruna” (Basque text). Mikel Salaberria testimony, Lezo, 2010.","source_display":"Soinuenea Herri Musikaren Txokoa, Euskal Herriko soinu-tresnen entziklopedia, “Burruna” (Basque text). Mikel Salaberria testimony, Lezo, 2010.","date_citation_display":"","object_display":"A scythe whetstone tied to a cord, either through a hole bored with difficulty at one end or in a notch cut for it; reconstructed to Mikel Salaberria’s description in 2010 (JMB 1432).","function_display":"A boy’s sound toy, played alone; Salaberria played it at about twelve, in the 1940s.","confidence_display":"medium to high","attestation_label":"ethnographic attestation","etymology_hedge":"","people_key":"mikel salaberria","display_name":"Lezo whetstone burrunda","image":{"full":"assets/objects/hunt_fifty_2026_10_30/cid1995_001_36.jpg","thumb":"assets/objects/hunt_fifty_2026_10_30/thumbs/cid1995_001_36.jpg","alt":"A blue-gray whetstone blade with a long dark cord and a pale bundle of fibre.","credit":"Soinuenea, Juan Mari Beltran Argiñena collection, JMBA 1432","source_page":"https://www.soinuenea.eus/eu/entziklopedia/burruna/er-88/","rehosted":true,"representative":false,"caption":"A scythe-whetstone burrunda made in 2010 to Mikel Salaberria’s description of the one he played at Lezo.","last_modified":"2026-11-03"},"slug":"soinuenea2026-002-mikel-salaberria-of-martizkone-farm-lezo"}