The Mudcat Café TM
Thread #113747   Message #2433959
Posted By: manitas_at_work
08-Sep-08 - 08:03 AM
Thread Name: '5000 Morris Dancers'
Subject: RE: '5000 Morris Dancers'
Do you think these instruments were just laying about when the Irish arrived in Ireland? Thawed out of a melting glacier just before people arrived? Ditto for the cittern - is that supposed to have arrived with Hengist and Horsa or do you think it may have possibly arrived a bit later say the 16th century? From France or Spain? If the latter then why are they better than the bouzouki?