Patrick Roper writes: >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.
I don't think anyone has yet answered this query, or if they did so I missed it. And, sorry, I have no real information to offer. All I remember is hearing a classics lecturer telling my librarianship students that our knowledge of the ancient world is a patchwork of light and dark, and that music, unfortunately, is "a dark area". Simon Cauchi <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> ----------------------------------------------------------------------- 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
