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Originally posted by collietta
Very beautiful. I wish I lived in a time where I could hear the priests play the songs they were made for.
I wonder why we don't make our religious buildings the same. It would call me to worship or at least make me pause and contemplate life and the wonders of the universe.
In America (at least where I've lived), we don't even have church bells ring on Sunday. That was one of my favorite things to wake up to when I was stationed in Italy.
Originally posted by LeLeu
When I was in my late teens I went on a journey into the Australian outback.
A park ranger was my guide and he was also from the ancient Adnyamathanha
(rock people) tribe, who are the custodians of that region.
He led us to a very narrow gorge with cliff faced walls about 40-50ft high.
Kind of like this one
As we ventured down the gorge it opened up into a oval shaped area on the
left as the rest of the gorge continued on. We went inside this natural chamber,
again it has high cliff face all around. On one side there was a smooth textured wall
that had a huge phallus carved into it. Our guide explained to us that this chamber
was where the men in his tribe were initiated into manhood for tens of thousands
of years and was sacred. No women were allow here, not that we had any with us.
Anyhow as the wind blew across the narrow gorge it would make a high pitched
drone sound like blowing across a bottle. The sound would fill the chamber and
deflect off the walls surrounding the observer. We waited for hours in the baking
heat until it finally happened in the late afternoon. It was an eerie yet wonderful
experience that gave me a primeval feeling in my gut. Your opening post reminded me
of that time.
Here is a link about Archaeoacoustics
Originally posted by coredrill
reply to post by sugarcookie1
There are many other temples in India, which has such Musical Pillars. The famous ones are
Meenakshiamman Kovil of Madhurai, in the outermost corridors of the "The hall of thousand Pillars or Aayiramkaal Mandapam" are situated the granite musical pillars. When tapped, each pillar produces a different musical note and the hall resonates with the sound of this note.
Vitthala Temple of Hampi, in Karnataka State has pillars which sound tones when tapped. This temple was built by the Vijayanagara Dynasty and was built upon by many kings successively.
The other temples which have musical pillars are
Sri Laxmi Chennakeshwara Temple at Dharmavaram, Anantpur , Andhra Pradesh State, whose pillars pillars, produce seven different musical notes when struck.
The Mani Mandapam of the Shiva temple at Thirunelveli, Tamil Nadu State, has pillars which are musical.
I guess it took the master craftsmen who sculptured these temples long time to experiment with the resonance of these stones etc.
Originally posted by coredrill
reply to post by sugarcookie1
Well, they were not "Ancients" to be precise, but very well in the recent past, that is - in the Common Era, and not BCE.
I have personally visited the temples indicated in the post, played tones on them pillars. I am from India.
edit on 30/1/12 by coredrill because: typos