Belgian planchette ronflante

planchette ronflante

planchette ronflante — French, 'snoring little board'; the museum's genre name for the toy bullroarer.

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.

Particulars

Object

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

Catalogued as a toy; no locality or use narrative recorded.