Ales frúsciu reconstruction (Sardinia)

frúsciu / burriburri

Source term: frúsciu

In the 1990s the schoolchildren of Ales, in the hills of western Sardinia, rebuilt their grandparents' noisemaker under a university fieldwork programme: the frúsciu, or burriburri — a thin wooden slat rounded at one end and brought to a gothic point at the other, whirled at arm's length on its knotted cord. The rebuilt instrument went into the town's museum of traditional Sardinian toys, a plaything recovered by the place that once spun it.

Particulars

Object

A thin wooden slat, one end curved and the other of ogival profile, pierced for a double-knotted cord; held by one cord end and rotated rapidly with extended arm. Museo del giocattolo tradizionale della Sardegna, Ales.

Function

Traditional noisemaker toy, rebuilt in a 1993-96 school workshop from local field research.