Ground-breaking

A completely different form of music was poised to take the world by storm.

Music lover, Kreshnik, commonly known as the mad pig-farmer from Prush, Albania, was the inventor of the boogentrosslehorn. This remarkable instrument was based on the more common booglinghorn, this itself being a timeworn folk instrument, traditionally used by goatherds. This formidable instrument consisted of a hollowed out tube, measuring a little over a meter, and made of wood. A series of seemingly random-placed holes were set either side of the mouthpiece. These allowed the player to vary the pitch of the notes being produced. As wind instruments go, it was found that the boogentrosslehorn was difficult to play, owing to the need to cover several holes at once while altering the way the lips are formed at the mouthpiece, in order to create the most interesting sounds.

Although originally invented by Kreshnik to entertain and sometimes pacify his pigs, a number of neighbouring music lovers attempted to fashion similar horns. This activity being more of a passing hobby as opposed to any serious attempt to promote the instrument to the rest of the world. Branching out beyond the rural duties of a pig farmer, Kreshnik spent a great deal of time reaching out to professional instrument makers. This was done in an attempt to have them reproduce, in a more marketable form, such as the addition of colourful motifs being displayed along the length of the instrument, in sufficient numbers to penetrate the market. These attempts to break into the world of selling his invention was made particularly challenging by having to negotiate his web research times with a fellow farmer who had an internet connection.

Looking further into the future, it was his hope that this ground-breaking instrument would eventually encourage avant-garde composers to write new music for it.

It never caught on.

23 thoughts on “Ground-breaking”

  1. I don’t even know how I ended up here, but I thought this post was good. I do not know who you are but definitely you’re going to a famous blogger if you are not already 😉 Cheers!

  2. Hey! Someone in my Facebook group shared this site with us so I came to give it a look. I’m definitely loving the information. I’m bookmarking and will be tweeting this to my followers! Wonderful blog and outstanding design and style.

  3. Hi there very cool web site!! Man .. Beautiful .. Wonderful .. I’ll bookmark your blog and take the feeds alsoKI’m happy to seek out so many helpful information here in the put up, we’d like develop extra strategies on this regard, thanks for sharing. . . . . .

  4. The crux of your writing whilst sounding reasonable initially, did not really sit perfectly with me personally after some time. Someplace throughout the paragraphs you were able to make me a believer unfortunately just for a short while. I still have a problem with your jumps in logic and you would do well to fill in those breaks. In the event you can accomplish that, I will certainly end up being impressed.

  5. magnificent post, very informative. I’m wondering why the opposite experts of this sector do not understand this. You must continue your writing. I am confident, you have a great readers’ base already!

  6. You are my inhalation, I own few blogs and very sporadically run out from post :). “Fiat justitia et pereat mundus.Let justice be done, though the world perish.” by Ferdinand I.

  7. I am really enjoying the theme/design of your website. Do you ever run into any browser compatibility issues? A couple of my blog readers have complained about my site not working correctly in Explorer but looks great in Chrome. Do you have any ideas to help fix this problem?

  8. I haven’t checked in here for a while because I thought it was getting boring, but the last several posts are good quality so I guess I’ll add you back to my daily bloglist. You deserve it my friend 🙂

  9. Pretty element of content. I just stumbled upon your weblog and in accession capital to claim that I acquire in fact loved account your weblog posts. Anyway I’ll be subscribing in your augment or even I success you access constantly rapidly.

Leave a Reply to high heels 43 Cancel reply

Your email address will not be published. Required fields are marked *