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KurtNYC

(14,549 posts)
Thu Dec 19, 2013, 10:10 AM Dec 2013

Stonehenge is a musical instrument -- The original "Rock" music

I recommend going to the link if only to play the sounds.

Stonehenge may have been built by Stone Age man as a prehistoric centre for rock music, a new study has claimed.

According to experts from London's Royal College of Art, some of the stones sound like bells, drums, and gongs when they are 'played' - or hit with hammers.
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He suspected there were ringing rocks on or around Preseli and suggested that this was the reason why so many Neolithic monuments exist in the region – with the sounds making the landscape sacred to Stone Age people.


http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-2515159/Why-Stonehenge-prehistoric-centre-rock-music-Stones-sound-like-bells-drums-gongs-played.html

Surely this is not what Jeff Spicolli had in mind when he said he would "wing on over to England and jam with the stones."

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Stonehenge is a musical instrument -- The original "Rock" music (Original Post) KurtNYC Dec 2013 OP
Some of the research was misplaced jberryhill Dec 2013 #1
Those Druids had some deep cuts Blue Owl Dec 2013 #2
"Look it says inches." "F--- the napkin!" KurtNYC Dec 2013 #4
No, it's "Music with Rocks in" intaglio Dec 2013 #3
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