[SunkenCiv]

Ancient Irish musical history found in modern India. [ANU Multimedia]

[fella]

The Romans had a similar instrument called a Cornu

[imardmd1]

Ancient Irish musical history found in modern India. [ANU Multimedia]

George Harrison takes Irish Horns to India, comes back with Ravi Shankar's Sitar (click here)? /s

[Celtic Conservative]

This seems to go further than just instruments. Years ago, an Irish anthropologist did studies and concluded that a fair dergree of early Irish music was structurally similar to Indian music. He stated you could hum a number of different Irish folk tunes to certain Indian populations and the Indians could finish it! One thing for sure, The Celts sure got around. The civilizations of Galatia (Turkey) , Gaul (France) and Galicia (spain) all contain the root “Gal” or “Gael” and indicate Celtic settlement at one tme.

CC

[mylife]

Why so surprised?
“The Drunken Irishman” Is still open in Ponape, Micronesia

[Moltke]

India 2000 years behind Western countries? Sounds about right. When will archeologists discover indoor plumbing in India that resembles a Western precursor? In 200 years? 300? ;-)

[mylife]

Sailors Horn Pipe