2006-09-15 18:51:08 · 22 answers · asked by Sharky Vl 5 in Entertainment & Music ➔ Polls & Surveys
because they cant afford glenfydych?or their horns dont work
2006-09-15 18:54:08 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 1⤋
IDIOPHONES
BELLS AND COW-BELLS
Bells and cow-bells are used to enhance the harnesses of a number of work and burden animals (donkeys and horses) or placed around the necks of pasture animals (sheep, goats, cattle). They are forged by smiths in bronze, iron and brass, but they are also available factory made. Depending upon the animal, they come in various sizes: from a few centimetres long, for lambs and kids, up to 30-40 cm long, for adult cattle. The herdsmen buy them at the fairs and choose them on the basis of their size and sound, which, according to a precise sexual symbolism, are either masculine or feminine, to suit the animal that is to wear them. Thus, the herd as well as the single animals belonging to it can be recognised at a distance, and so the cow-bells assume the function of 'sound markers'.
But there is also a more strictly musical use of these cow-bells connected with the New Year and Carnival festivities. During these festivities, characterised by the expulsion of evil, the cow-bells figure among the 'noise-raising' objects and instruments that are played within the villages for the purpose of exorcising and purifying. At Carnival in some villages 'processional' dancers are accompanied by percussion on pots, pans, lids, bells and cow-bells.
2006-09-15 18:58:15 · answer #2 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
You know I live in Nebraska and we got a boatload of cows here and I have never ever ever, in real life, seen a cow with a bell around its neck.
2006-09-15 18:55:12 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
My cows don't have bells....I always figured so if they got lost. But never heard or was told a reason why they wear them
2006-09-15 19:01:26 · answer #4 · answered by ▒Яenée▒ 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Because the bells would just look plain daft round a fishes neck, wouldn't they?
2006-09-15 23:27:10 · answer #5 · answered by Patchouli Pammy 7 · 0⤊ 1⤋
it b/c to led the other cows by ringing there bells
2006-09-15 19:02:34 · answer #6 · answered by kalkidan k 1 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Because their Horns don't work. The. guy who said that because bulls have horns is partially wrong as even cows have horns
2006-09-16 01:14:47 · answer #7 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
So the farmers can tell where they are in the pasture, and they can hear them when they're heading back to the barn.
2006-09-15 18:57:51 · answer #8 · answered by Frosty 6 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Well a couple of people came close but they haven't given you the right answer yet, have they? :)
Incase their horns don't work is the one I've always heard. lol.
2006-09-15 19:12:12 · answer #9 · answered by mancunian_nick 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Because sirens need batteries to work
2006-09-15 18:59:05 · answer #10 · answered by Useless 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Because they don't like neck-ties.
2006-09-15 19:02:49 · answer #11 · answered by B i n g o 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋