Found on Mother Earth News; a quick overview of rhythm bones playing that also explains how to “recycle” your evening’s beef ribs…
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Recycle those beef ribs into a musical instrument.
By Pam Gross – March/April 1982
Sun-dried, fire-burned, clean-picked and rackety — bones have been used as rhythm-makers throughout the ages. In medieval Europe roving performers, called jongleurs, accompanied their melodies by clacking ox ribs together. And no American minstrel show of the 1800s was complete without a bones player. In fact, the end man in a semicircle of musicians was always called “Mr. Bones.” His job…
Read It All: Do-It-Yourself/1982-03-01/Playing-The-Bones