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LET’S MAKE JORVIK PANPIPE Heill þik! Welcome to my brand new video. This time we will see the Jorvik Panpipes! The panpipe excavated in Coppergate (dating from the tenth century and found at the Coppergate excavations in York) was made of boxwood. The one I made in this video is in ash. Someone says that it can be made only in hardwood, but I did it also in pinewood, which is soft, and it works quite well. The original was about 6.1 centimeters wide, 9.6 centimeters long and 1.8 centimeters thick. I attempted to reproduce these dimensions. The York Archaeological Trust wrote that “It is a very rare treat when something as intangible as a one thousand-year-old sound is recovered from an excavation... Amongst the debris in the pit was a small rectangular wooden object less than 10cm long. There was a hole in one corner and five tubes of different lengths had been bored through the wood, the smallest one broken off along the side.” The pipe I made in this video is n
