And the now defunct "Ostrich Hut" restaurant chain. dt At 04:01 PM 10/10/2009, you wrote:
>On Oct 10, 2009, at 3:31 PM, Guy Smith wrote: > > > The feather he recommended using - the thin end of an ostrich feather, > > stripped down to just the spine - isn't all that different from a > > guitar > > string, just more fragile. He did have a well-developed > > historically-based > > rationale for using a plectrum of this sort, but I don't recall the > > details. > >It probably had to do with the vast herds of ostriches roaming over >Europe in the late Middle Ages. >-- > >To get on or off this list see list information at >http://www.cs.dartmouth.edu/~wbc/lute-admin/index.html
