Virgil often refers to shepherds etc. playing pipes, straws, reeds and so on and these were, presumably, instruments similar to modern penny whistles - easily made, and with six holes (usually).
Can anyone suggest the best way of finding out what the music these shepherds played might have sounded like? I ask partly because I heard someone on the radio today playing a Stone Age bone whistle and it made a very acceptable sound. Patrick Roper ----------------------------------------------------------------------- To leave the Mantovano mailing list at any time, do NOT hit reply. Instead, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the message "unsubscribe mantovano" in the body (omitting the quotation marks). You can also unsubscribe at http://virgil.org/mantovano/mantovano.htm#unsub
