Originally Posted by (billkilpatrick @ July 19 2005, 17:57)
This did disturb me a lot - I have seen somewhere an article about this... Didnīt find that, but found googling the following article (sorry, in German):
http://www.theiss.de/AiD/2002/6/europa1.php
The link does not contain information about how old this medieval find is, but somehow I remember that it would be from 14th or 15th century AD. In any case, it was excavated near Gdansk/Danzig in Poland. Perhaps the earliest example of extant "proto-mandolin" we have? (I suppose there is older pictorial evidence.) In any case, an instrument usually named guittern, gittern, quinterne etc.
Arto
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