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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