{"id":"SPANU1994-001","label":"Gavoi burriburri (frusciu)","people_or_site":"Gavoi, Nuoro, Sardinia","country_current":"Italy","historic_region":"Sardinia / Barbagia","macroregion":"Europe / Northeast Italy","local_name":"burriburri","source_term":"","source_language":"Italian","object_description":"Wooden board 15-35 cm with a hole at one short end, on about a metre of cord that is wound tight before whirling; the photographed specimen is 35 cm, made by M. Pira of Gavoi.","function_summary":"Boys' toy; the Sonos survey records an older ritual use since lapsed. Its sound is compared to a motorcycle engine.","attestation_type":"ethnographic_attestation","source_key":"spanu_1994_sonos","source_type":"organological_survey","source_url":"https://www.lamiasardegna.it/images/sardegna-feste/sonos/110.html","page_or_plate":"Sonos pp. 110-111, fig. 112","map_confidence":"high","plot_status":"plot","coordinate_basis":"Gavoi town, Barbagia di Ollolai.","jade_complex_role":"","blurb":"In Gavoi, up in the Barbagia, the frusciu of the rest of Sardinia answers to burriburri. It is a board with a hole at one short end, on a metre of cord that the player first winds tight and then hauls into circles — and the comparison Sardinians reach for is not thunder or bees but the roar of a motorcycle engine. By the time it was written down it had passed wholly to the boys, though the memory of an older, ritual use still clung to it.","pull_quote":"L'effetto sonoro è simile al rombo del motore di una motocicletta (da cui il termine onomatopeico burriburri utilizzato a Gavoi).","pull_quote_translation":"Its sound resembles the roar of a motorcycle engine — whence the onomatopoeic name burriburri used at Gavoi.","pull_quote_cite":"Spanu 1994:110","term_gloss":"burriburri — the Gavoi name; frusciu is the general Sardinian term ('rustle').","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":"Gian Nicola Spanu (ed.), Sonos: strumenti della musica popolare sarda (Nuoro: Ilisso, 1994), pp. 110-111, fig. 112","url":"https://www.lamiasardegna.it/images/sardegna-feste/sonos/110.html"}],"source_citations":"Gian Nicola Spanu (ed.), Sonos: strumenti della musica popolare sarda (Nuoro: Ilisso, 1994), pp. 110-111, fig. 112","source_display":"Gian Nicola Spanu (ed.), Sonos: strumenti della musica popolare sarda (Nuoro: Ilisso, 1994), pp. 110-111, fig. 112","date_citation_display":"","object_display":"Wooden board 15-35 cm with a hole at one short end, on about a metre of cord that is wound tight before whirling; the photographed specimen is 35 cm, made by M. Pira of Gavoi.","function_display":"Boys' toy; the Sonos survey records an older ritual use since lapsed. Its sound is compared to a motorcycle engine.","confidence_display":"high","attestation_label":"ethnographic attestation","etymology_hedge":"","people_key":"gavoi","display_name":"Gavoi burriburri (frusciu)","image":{"full":"assets/objects/SPANU1994-001_spanu1994-001-sonos-fig112-gavoi.jpg","thumb":"assets/objects/SPANU1994-001_spanu1994-001-sonos-fig112-gavoi_thumb.jpg","credit":"Gian Nicola Spanu (ed.), Sonos: strumenti della musica popolare sarda (Ilisso, 1994), fig. 112","license":"Rights reserved (© Ilisso Edizioni); rehosted for non-commercial research; no open reuse licence stated","source_page":"https://it.scribd.com/doc/194502952/sonos","rehosted":true,"representative":false,"caption":"Gavoi burriburri made by M. Pira, Sonos fig. 112 (35 cm)."},"slug":"spanu1994-001-gavoi-nuoro-sardinia"}