Talk:Bullroarer

message: I don't mean to be a prick, but, is "sharpish" even a word?JayPetey 17:36, 4 December 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  Sharpish?? 

message: Bullroarers are a ritual and communications device. A better title than Bullroarer (music) should be used--ZayZayEM 07:29, 23 March 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  Title 

message: Wasn't one of these featured in Crocodile Dundee?  IIRC, his Aboriginal mate goes off to use it, and Mick says he's "making a phone call"...? 87.236.134.146 (talk) 17:11, 17 April 2008 (UTC)
thread_title:  Crocodile Dunee 

message: In the overview it is stated that the characteristic sound is not caused by the doppler effect.
In "Design, use, and sound" section it is stated that it is caused by the doppler effect.  — Preceding unsigned comment added by 188.97.167.32 (talk) 09:51, 27 March 2012 (UTC)
thread_title:  Doppler effect 

message: Are these considered independent inventions of the various cultures or is there an ancient link in cultures through the use of these whirly-gigs?Gnostics (talk) 17:32, 23 May 2012 (UTC)
thread_title:  Independent invention 

message: This article is extremely poor! Do more research and stop using commercial movies as sources!
--89.204.138.158 (talk) 04:58, 10 February 2013 (UTC)
replies: text: What commercial movie is used as source material in this article? Crocodile Dundee is mentioned, but as an example in popular culture, not as source material. rowley (talk) 14:03, 31 March 2022 (UTC)
thread_title:  Article 

message: I'd suggest there should be mention in this article of the Māori pūrerehua which is a bullroarer and is usually made of wood, stone or bone and attached to a long string. Uenuku (talk) 18:09, 22 March 2015 (UTC)
thread_title:  Pūrerehua: traditional Māori bullroarer 

message: Where does the name “bullroarer” come from? It is certainly not a native name; and it is not used in European languages besides English. - Wwallacee (talk) 22:12, 10 March 2020 (UTC)
thread_title:  Name! 

message: Bullroarer used for communication? What could the bandwidth possibly be?
2600:1700:4CA1:3C80:506B:64CA:F333:6A75 (talk) 04:13, 7 December 2020 (UTC)
replies: text: Bandwidth similar to that of smoke signals by Native Americans, and talking drums by African Natives. In other words, surprisingly complex. rowley (talk) 14:01, 31 March 2022 (UTC)
thread_title:  Bullroarer used for communication? 

message: In the Australian Aboriginal culture section, this wording: Bullroarers have been used in initiation ceremonies and in burials to ward off evil spirits, bad tidings, and especially women and children has the instrument being used to ward off women and children -- which is a very different thing from forbidding use by or in front of women and children. It also has the instrument being used to "ward off" bad tidings, rather than simply in response to bad tidings or to convey bad tidings. I don't think this is what the writer means to say. rowley (talk) 14:09, 31 March 2022 (UTC)
thread_title:  Ambiguous Wording? 

message: In the interest of accuracy, you state that Sol in the novel Gentian Hill is a mute. This is inaccurate as there are several examples of Sol speaking. Specifically on pages 65, 71, 139, and 168. Gentian Hill by Elizabeth Goudge, 1949 edition,  Coward-McCann, Inc. Padrou (talk) 15:41, 12 March 2023 (UTC)
thread_title:  BullRoarer, Britain and Ireland, Gentian Hill reference inaccuracy  

message: I can't find any evidence of an anthropologist called Michael Boyd who specialises in bullroarers. All the online sources seem to have copy-pasted from this Wikipedia source. I read the reference in Anxious Pleasures (number 3) but the quote seems to have been altered. The version I tracked down reads as follows:
Moreover, some archeologists-notably, Gordon Willey (1971, 20)-now admit the bullroarer to the kit-bag of artifacts brought by the very earliest migrants to the Americas.
Gregor, Thomas. Anxious Pleasures : The Sexual Lives of an Amazonian People, University of Chicago Press, 1985. Cacoology (talk) 09:57, 10 April 2024 (UTC)
thread_title:  Michael Boyd