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To: SunkenCiv

Change of tune pine.


2 posted on 08/31/2009 3:56:27 AM PDT by decimon
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To: decimon

pine = ping

Pining for the pings. Pinging for the pines.


3 posted on 08/31/2009 3:59:02 AM PDT by decimon
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Having never heard of a keyboard instrument called an epigonion, I went and looked it out . . .

It was a large harp or psaltery, ancient Greek, and it could no more play a Scarlatti sonata than it could fly to the moon.

Here is something else from the ASTRA project -- something the instrument could actually play in real life. It's a chanson by Guillaume DuFay, leader of the Burgundian School in the early Renaissance.

DuFay chanson

And it took FOUR epigonions to play that . . . .

Computer modelling can really lead you astray.

8 posted on 08/31/2009 5:07:34 AM PDT by AnAmericanMother (Ministrix of ye Chasse, TTGC Ladies' Auxiliary (recess appointment))
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To: decimon

Pine is not Elm :-)


12 posted on 08/31/2009 5:46:01 AM PDT by NCjim ("Lies have to be covered up, truth can run around naked." - Johnny Cash)
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