> This may be true, but that doesn't say anything about Ireland, and even > if there is documentation about how and when it all happened in > England, that doesn't mean that it didn't happen somewhere else, Canuns/santurs didn't have wire strings until Ottoman times either.
> possibly using different techniques. Plus, if Ireland, or anywhere else > for that matter, was primarily an oral culture, and/or the operation > was considered sacred or secret or reserved for any reason (or > unimportant or common knowledge), If the Irish had wire technology they would have been supplying English textile industry, but Elisabethan customs authorities had massive problems with Continental wire contraband, so obviously there was no wire in Ireland. RT To get on or off this list see list information at http://www.cs.dartmouth.edu/~wbc/lute-admin/index.html
