Slovenia brnivka bullroarer

brnivka

brnivka = Slovene name for the cord-whirled sound-maker.

Slovene schoolchildren made the brnivka from the schoolroom itself: tie a cord through the hole of a wooden ruler, spin it fast through the air, and the ruler roars. The folk-music scholar Zmaga Kumer classed the toy among Slovenia's folk instruments, and this homemade twentieth-century example is exactly that lesson-hour instrument — a one-holed wooden slat on a cord.

Na ravnilo z luknjico ... navežemo ... vrvico in ga nato vrtimo po zraku okoli svoje osi precej hitro.

We tie a cord to a ruler with a hole, then spin it quickly through the air around its axis.

Slovene teaching resource, Glasbila, brnivka mechanics

Particulars

Object

Flat board with one hole and a single cord, spun quickly through the air around its axis.

Function

A children's sound-toy: Slovene schoolchildren tied a holed ruler to a cord and spun it roaring through the air.