A Central African lyre made from a human skull, antelope horns, skin, gut, and hair. 19th century CE - Amazing Today43

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A Central African lyre made from a human skull, antelope horns, skin, gut, and hair. 19th century CE

Some musical instrument origin myths reference human or animal remains and skulls and bones are sometimes used as decoration or as an instrument’s key component.

The oldest playable instruments are red-crowned crane-bone flutes from China’s Neolithic Age and in Tibet thigh-bone trumpets (rkangling) and skull drums (damaru) were used.

Skull lyres, thought to be from Ethiopia, are rare, scarcely documented and found only in museums. While some have suggested a symbolic or clandestine ritual use for these lyres, there is no known tradition. Most likely it is a sensational item made for the nineteenth-century European market.

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"Don't you hate it when you get a song stuck in your head?"

In all ways, except physical, that's metal as hell

That puts a whole new slant on the phrase “Don’t make a liar out of me.”

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Would be pretty sick on a bard character.