Ceneselli rombo with a pig bone

rombo-tavoletta

Source term: rombo-tavoletta (rhombe confectionne avec une planchette)

At Ceneselli on the Po plain the slat roarer carried one addition: a pig bone knotted to the free end of the cord. In this region the pig was killed at the season of the dead, and what remains of it — bone and horn, set spinning — 'makes the dead heard.'

Il serait interessant de pouvoir mesurer l'aire de diffusion de la fixation d'un os de cochon a l'extremite de la ficelle du plus typique rombo-tavoletta (rhombe confectionne avec une planchette) qu'il me fut donne d'observer a Ceneselli (Alto-Polesine).

It would be interesting to be able to measure the area of diffusion of the fixing of a pig bone to the end of the cord of the most typical rombo-tavoletta (a rhombe made with a small board) that I was ever given to observe, at Ceneselli (Alto Polesine).

Cleto Corrain, in Tucci 1960: 444, quoted by Fabre-Vassas, Etudes rurales 105-106 (1987), printed p. 203

Particulars

Object

A planchette-type slat roarer with a pig bone tied to the far end of its cord - a composite recorded nowhere else.

Function

A children's plaything of the Veneto plain: Corrain observed the Ceneselli rombo-tavoletta for his study of the games country children made for themselves, and thought its pig-bone cord-weight worth mapping across Italy.