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Related: About this forumStonehenge 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.
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
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jberryhill
(62,444 posts)1. Some of the research was misplaced
Blue Owl
(50,498 posts)2. Those Druids had some deep cuts
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KurtNYC
(14,549 posts)4. "Look it says inches." "F--- the napkin!"
intaglio
(8,170 posts)3. No, it's "Music with Rocks in"
Or "Soul Music"