No. MUS2026-197
Madla snorlebein
Norway · Rogaland · Stavanger · Europe · Scandinavia
Play / practical
snorlebein
snorlebein — 'cord-bone'; the whirled bone hums (brumme) on its long thread.
A pig's foot-bone is the whole instrument here. At Madla on the Hafrsfjord, Tormod Ropeid bored a hole through the knuckle, knotted in a long cord, and whirled bone and string round in the air until they gave their humming roar — the snorlebein, the cord-bone, a farmyard cousin of the carved blades of other latitudes, spun for nothing more than the pleasure of the sound.
Particulars
- Object
- A pig's foot-bone with a single through-hole and a long cord; whirled in the air, bone and cord together, to make a humming roar ('brummelyd').
- Function
- Sound-making toy: the bone is spun on its cord in the air to produce a hum.
Source
Norsk Folkemuseum NF.1964-0080, made by Tormod Ropeid of Hafrsfjord; Reidar Sevåg, Det gjallar og det læt (Oslo, 1973), pp. 20-21