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By the way, sort of in the spirit of Simple Gifts, I wish someone would skate to this. In the 1920s the remains of a 5000 year old harp were unearthed in the ruins of the Sumerian city of Ur. The wooden parts were long gone of course, but there was enough of the silver plating that archeologists were able to reconstruct it. Here harpist Peter Pringle improvises on what he imagines the originsal music might have sounded like. There is even music for a footwork sequence at the end.
The Sumerian Silver Lyre
The 5000-year-old Sumerian “Silver Lyre of Ur”, along with several other musical instruments, was unearthed in southern Iraq in the 1920’s by the British arc...
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