Recreating the sound of Aztec 'Whistles of Death', you can listen

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http://edition.cnn.com/2008/TECH/science/06/30/pre-columbiansounds.ap/index.html#cnnSTCOther1


Scientists were fascinated by the ghostly find: a human skeleton buried in an Aztec temple with a clay, skull-shaped whistle in each bony hand.

But no one blew into the noisemakers for nearly 15 years. When someone finally did, the shrill, windy screech made the spine tingle.

If death had a sound, this was it.
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Velazquez, the man behind the revival, says that we've been treating past civilizations as if they were deaf and mute, I think he has a point. The mere sound of the whistle stimulates my imagination of what the past civs might have been like. Very interesting.
 
Oh man that sound is spine tingling.
 
augurey said:
It made me jump. Imagine that in the jungle, alone.
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Seriously if guerrilla fighters used these before an attack, they'd be unstoppable.
 
Morbid people. Life must have been depressing...
 
[censored] I still have goose bumps since listening to it almost 2 minutes ago. It's unbelievable.

Now I'm not so sure about how accurate this is (mainly because some of the instruments that were actually capable of making distinct sounds were tuned to European scales - I could hear it and even name the notes, and I don't think the Aztecs really had this system...), but the sound is still pure terror to me.
 
So if any of you were wondering what Elvira, Mistress of the Dark would sound like in the sack, you have your answer.

Seriously though, those rocked. Big bad boom sticks notwithstanding, if I had been one of Cortez' men, those would have spooked the hell out of me.
 
nonconformist said:
This thread is now about frikking terrifying sounds
http://youtube.com/watch?v=K0nIqZgnp60

http://youtube.com/watch?v=PJQVlVHsFF8
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Yeah those Katyushas rock - I can´t decide which I like more, the Katyusha or the Nebelwerfer:
http://youtube.com/watch?v=xtSTMYGEyaM
http://youtube.com/watch?v=34xz-WPVZqg&feature=related
I wonder why they make this Katyusha - like sound in the first video and sound completely different in the second one, btw.

Anyway, this Aztec whistle is great - I wish I had one so I could make people get :run: .
 
I really need one of those to use.

I can't imagine what kind of $^&% goes on in your mind after listening to the whole thing, I only listened to the first 20 seconds and immediately turned my speakers off.
 
I'm scared :scared:
 
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