Hello, Am 22.11.2006 um 18:46 schrieb ben grossman:
If I was home, I might be able to find it and scan it for you all.
thanks for your offer, Ben.
Page presents and analyses some dubious evidence for an Arabic instrument that prefigured the European version. I asked once asked Dr. George Sawa, an expert in early Arabic music, about this. He just laughed and wiggled his eyebrows... And said that he had heard nothing about it.
I am personally mainly interested in evidence: artefacts from the past and their accessability via any kind of publication. When I read through an article or book I mainly look for the new hints on artefacts/evidence it supplies. Regarding hurdy-gurdy in the middle Ages: to my taste there is still a serious lack in evidence for puting even a hypothesis upon. So I try to collect evidence, publish it via the web not even thinking about thinking about a theory. Acctually the evidence is to small even to disprove the weirdest hypothesis. I hope that that learning to know the handfull of known facts tendencially will keep people from believing odd speculations (The other use of reading articles and books is to understand where from people get their odd believes ;-).
kind regards, Simon
