{"id":79,"date":"2011-05-10T14:17:59","date_gmt":"2011-05-10T14:17:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.hilltracker.co.uk\/hill-walking-blog\/?p=79"},"modified":"2020-09-29T22:29:07","modified_gmt":"2020-09-29T22:29:07","slug":"musical-stones-of-skiddaw","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hilltracker.co.uk\/hill-walking-blog\/musical-stones-of-skiddaw","title":{"rendered":"Musical Stones of Skiddaw"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Skiddaw, one of the most famous Wainwrights, provided the stones used to produce a very beautiful sounding musical instrument. This fascinating lithophone, created by stonemason Joseph Richardson in 1790 has a unique sound produced by tuned slate obtained from Skiddaw in the Lake District. Famously named &#8216;The Musical Stones of Skiddaw&#8217; the instrument can be seen in the Keswick museum.<\/p>\n<p>More information on the musical stones of <a title=\"Skiddaw\" href=\"https:\/\/guideus.co.uk\/wainwright-walks-skiddaw\" target=\"_blank\">Skiddaw<\/a> can be found on <a href=\"http:\/\/thesinginghand.blogspot.com\/2008\/07\/british-rock-bands.html\" target=\"_blank\">The Singing Hand Blog<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Skiddaw, one of the most famous Wainwrights, provided the stones used to produce a very beautiful sounding musical instrument. This fascinating lithophone, created by stonemason Joseph Richardson in 1790 has a unique sound produced by tuned slate obtained from Skiddaw in the Lake District. Famously named &#8216;The Musical Stones of Skiddaw&#8217; the instrument can be &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/hilltracker.co.uk\/hill-walking-blog\/musical-stones-of-skiddaw\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Musical Stones of Skiddaw<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[31,32],"tags":[37,40,36,35,33,38,39,34],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/hilltracker.co.uk\/hill-walking-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/79"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/hilltracker.co.uk\/hill-walking-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/hilltracker.co.uk\/hill-walking-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hilltracker.co.uk\/hill-walking-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hilltracker.co.uk\/hill-walking-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=79"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/hilltracker.co.uk\/hill-walking-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/79\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":123,"href":"https:\/\/hilltracker.co.uk\/hill-walking-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/79\/revisions\/123"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/hilltracker.co.uk\/hill-walking-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=79"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hilltracker.co.uk\/hill-walking-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=79"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hilltracker.co.uk\/hill-walking-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=79"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}