No. KOLOTOUROU2004-001
Modern Greek vouga bullroarer
Greece; country-wide folk-instrument attestation, locality unrecorded · Europe · Mediterranean
Play / practical
Βούγκα / Vouga
Βούγκα / vouga: modern Greek name reported for a triangular wooden bullroarer.
Modern Greek vouga was a triangular wooden bullroarer, a corded blade whirled through the air to make sound. Fivos Anoyanakis set it down among the children's sound-toys of Greece, with its sister names vourvoúna, vrondára, vrondalídha — thunder words for a toy; no village or ritual story came with them.
In Greece, the bullroarer known as vouga … is triangular in shape and made of wood.
Aikaterini Kolotourou, A Typological and Iconographic Investigation of Musical Instruments in Iron Age Greece and Cyprus (2004), p. 48 n. 12, citing Anoyanakis 1979:204 fig. 145.
Particulars
- Object
- Triangular wooden end-corded free-air bullroarer, whirled overhead.
- Function
- Children's sound-toy.
Source
Aikaterini Kolotourou, A Typological and Iconographic Investigation of Musical Instruments in Iron Age Greece and Cyprus (PhD thesis, University of Edinburgh, 2004), p. 48 n. 12, citing Anoyanakis 1979, p. 204, fig. 145