Talk:Shofar
From Academic Kids
The following was removed on a previous edit:
- The horn is flattened and given a turned up bell by applying heat to soften it. A hole is made from the tip of the horn to the natural hollow inside. Because this hollow is of irregular bore, the harmonics obtained when playing the instrument can vary: rather than a pure perfect fifth, intervals as narrow as a fourth, or as wide as a sixth may be produced.
I assume it was removed by mistake, and put it back (slightly rearraged) in the "construction" section. If it's faulty in any way, I'd appreciate fixes, of course. --Camembert
Re the portion of the article saying it's never used today outside of Yom Kippur and Rosh Hashanah services: I may be clueless about Jewish liturgy, but wasn't it used during the celebrations immediately after the capture of the Western Wall by the Israelis in 1967? Similarly, I've heard (apocryphally) of it being used as a signaling device by the Israelis in battle situations. -152.163.252.4 11:24, 7 Dec 2003 (UTC)
- I don't know about that, but what the article says is that it's almost never used outside of those times, which I think is accurate. --Camembert
