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This is also due to laws for protecting nature which limit the gathering of materials in the countryside.\r\nHowever, to a lesser extent, they have been replaced by modern materials, also from waste and nearby sources: plastic bottles, cardboard boxes, tin cans\u2026 There are still people who make instruments with them\u2026 but this would be part of a different exhibition.\r\n\r\nHuman interaction with its vital environment clearly results in the use of nearby materials for carrying out different everyday activities. A reasonable and balanced use which allows for present use, but also preserves for the future. It may be a self-interested conservation but it is effective in the long-term.\r\n\r\nMusic, while important, remains secondary to other activities directed towards survival, such that for the crafting of traditional instruments it is normal to use waste, recycled or easily-found local materials, but especially, materials which are not expensive. Thus, instruments are made from wood, skin, bones, reeds\u2026 to create a simple traditional music agreeable to the popular social classes; most of the population.\r\n\r\nEven though making theses instruments is usually associated with shepherds, it is not exclusive to this profession. This idea, although largely true, was widely spread by pastoral literature and remained, like a stereotype, engrained in our collective memory. They were also made and used in other places. Often as children\u2019s toys once they fell into disuse by adults.\r\nIn this exhibition we are presenting a small sample of them, whose use, unfortunately and bar a few exceptions, has almost disappeared.\r\n\r\nAll the soundtracks have been recorded using the same instruments as appear in the photos, with the exception of the bark whistle and the round tambourine which, given their age and deterioration had to be replaced with a similar but more recent ones.","link":"https:\/\/museoecologiahumana.org\/en\/espacio\/temporary-exhibitions\/year-2018\/proximity-music\/","name":"Proximity music","slug":"proximity-music","taxonomy":"espacio","parent":2416,"meta":[],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"\nProximity music archivos - Museo de Ecolog\u00eda Humana<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/museoecologiahumana.org\/en\/espacio\/temporary-exhibitions\/year-2018\/proximity-music\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Proximity music archivos - Museo de Ecolog\u00eda Humana\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Branches and tree trunks from pruning or already dry and collected from the forest, pumpkins, bird bones, cured animal skins, horses manes, horns\u2026 are materials which could easily be found in the rural world not many years ago, within a farming and shepherding economy which was not subject to the strict rules of nowadays. 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