Appeal to the Mexican President

A fully documented concrete example is the rich, unique, ancient but now almost non-existent economic and cultural branch of the construction and performance of Mexican musical and sound instruments. As an artistic endeavour it was destroyed, forbidden, banned, despised, replaced, forgotten or shelved during the last five centuries as a result of invasion, colonization, evangelization, inquisition, looting, dependency, globalization, racism, ethnocentrism, malinchismo, modernism, bureaucracy, corruption, laziness and ignorance, in spite of Independence, the Revolution and the introduction of laws to investigate, disseminate and promote pre-Hispanic and indigenous cultures and to promote and develop national values. Although there are thousands of rescued archaeological aerophones or resonators in warehouses and museums cabinets, collections and research archives, and hundreds of thousands still to be identified, unfortunately they have not even been studied in depth, nor made known to the interested public, despite many of them being unique worldwide.

The list of nearly 90 pages on my website of open-access studies includes dozens of cases of relevant resonators which were not well known - some of them very important - and which had not even been identified by specialists, despite being reported in specialized publications and forums, even international ones (see list on my website, below).

By way of an example of a unique archaeological sound artefact, you can read (link below) the story (in Spanish) of a beautiful flute, with extraordinary sonorous and physical characteristics, that is officially registered as part of the nation’s patrimony; since 2009 I have been studying this instrument with my limited resources, but have so far failed to see it authenticated in a laboratory. I have included in the study an Appendix which documents the paperwork and administrative difficulties in continuing to analyze thoroughly this flute as well as other rescued resonators.