The Bullroarer Atlas

No. TUCCI1969-005

Vallebona (Macerata) vendola

Marche · Macerata · Europe · Northeast Italy

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Cambridgeshire cattle-driving bullroarer with deep angular notches along both long edges and a long twisted cord tied through one end.
Plate I. Representative — not this record’s object. Cattle-driving bull-roarer, Gamlingay/Over, Cambridgeshire. Image source

vendola

vendola — Macerata form of the Marche name; at Fabriano svolància (Ginobili, 25 Apr. 1969).

The vendola turned up again almost by accident: Giovanni Ginobili, who had whirled the svendola as a boy in Petriolo, chanced on the same instrument in the mid-1950s in Vallebona, a country district of Macerata — the same thin board, the same single cord, the same flight over the head.

La svendola … 4-5 anni addietro, casualmente, l'ho rivista a Macerata, in contrada Vallebona.

The svendola … 4-5 years ago, by chance, I saw it again at Macerata, in the district of Vallebona.

Giovanni Ginobili to Tucci, 24 Dec. 1961 (Tucci 1969, p. 369)

Source

Giovanni Tucci, 'Studi e ricerche sul rombo in Italia,' Rivista di Etnografia XXIII (1969), pp. 363-377

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Part of The Bullroarer Atlas, companion to The Eve Theory of Consciousness.