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Planet Fidhle
(David Attenborough 1 – Taransay 2006)
And so here we are among the remote community of Tar-nan-say – a tribe of fidhlers so primitive that they still communicate using carved pieces of wood attached to their chins.  We have an example here – (shows a fiddle)
In order to communicate, they scrape lumps of horse hair [...]

Planet Fidhle
(David Attenborough 2 – Taransay 2007)
So here we are again on the remote island of Taransay with the Tar-an-say Fidhlers.
This year we have observed some of their secret ceremonies.
A-lek is the elder of the stove ceremony. Here he tries to capture the elusive “fire” and does the “ray-king” of the stove, using a long [...]