A blog for those interested in lithophones (instruments made from rock) and especially the famous 'Musical Stones of Skiddaw' held at Keswick Museum and Art Gallery. The instrument is a 14 foot-long 1.5 ton stone xylophone made in 1827 by Keswick stonemason Joseph Richardson out of rare 'hornfels' rock found between the mountains Skiddaw and Blencathra in North Cumbria, UK.
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Top percussionist Evelyn Glennie plays a brand new lithophone made for Brantwood - Home of John Ruskin - by The University of Leeds.
www.ruskinrocks.org.uk
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