Sounding Stones
Abstract
MANY hard and compact varieties of rock are sonorous when struck. Flint nodules often possess this property. The purity of the tone appears dependent upon the length, calibre, and homogeneity of the nodule, the best results being obtained from the long and slender forms. At Studland Bay I have collected many of these ``musical'' flints, and obtained one from a chalk pit near Faversham which can be used as a gong when suspended. This particular specimen is nearly 2 feet in length (it was once longer), and is scarcely as thick as a rolling-pin!
- Publication:
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Nature
- Pub Date:
- January 1906
- DOI:
- 10.1038/073246c0
- Bibcode:
- 1906Natur..73Q.246C