Re: OT: Chinese zither
| From: | BP Jonsson <bpj@...> |
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| Date: | Friday, September 19, 2003, 1:26 |
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At 10:13 18.9.2003 +0100, Peter Bleackley wrote:
>Here's an idea for you. Get an Aurochs horn, hollow it out, make a
>mouthpiece at the narrow end, and add finger holes in various places. You
>now have a form of serpent.
Too bad the real aurochs is extinct!
They are trying to "reconstruct" the beast by cross-
breeding various European country races but the
resulting animals are much smaller.
/BP 8^)
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