Musician’s sounds survived the tomb - pre-Columbian bone instruments

When it comes to making music, there’s nothing like the sound of human bone. Or a sacrificial scream.

Ask Elisabeth Waldo, a musician and composer whose grasp of pre-Columbian instruments includes owning an authentic Aztec bone rasp, or omichicahuaztli, reportedly played during human sacrifice.

“These are my human bones,” the Northridge musician and composer said before beating a chuck-chuck rhythm on a femur notched for noise. “It really sounds great on a human skull.”*

*From: http://www.dailynews.com
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