When the architect Inigo Jones returned to England from Italy with what must be the first recorded entry of a theorbo into Britain he was held up at customs while the officials decided whether or not he was bringing in an "instrument of destruction" and a threat to national security. It was a strange sight to see a giraffe lute for the first time. Kenneth
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