Bronze lur
Over the May Day weekend, I took part in a few intense days on Bornholm exploring sound in prehistory. Participants from Denmark, Sweden, Finland, Norway, Germany, and England were brought together for explorations and experiments with instruments, voice, and sound. The gathering was organised by Eva Fock through her project Sound of Antiquity. This was…
The trombonists Jens Chr. Kloster and Gaute Vikdal has arranged, in collaboration with the bronze caster Peter Jensen in Copenhagen, the reconstruction of two playable bronze lurs. This is the first time anyone in modern times has succeeded in recreating this amazingly advanced craft process. The manufacturing process is called “lost wax method”. One element…
The magnificent lurs of the Scandinavian Bronze Age have got a lot of attention from archaeologists as well as musicologists, since their discovery in the end of the 18th century and onwards. My contribution to this research tradition is the article “The Ritual Significance of the Scandinavian Bronze Age Lurs: An Examination Based on Ethnographic…