Interesting Links for 09-05-2018
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andrewducker- The world's oldest recorded music is 3,400 years old, and from Syria
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- New evidence that infants track others' mental states
- (tags: children empathy psychology )
- Anyone know of Paris Orly airport is still running Windows 3.1
- (tags: Windows airport france OhForFucksSake )
- Don't offer your child help with homework, offer them time to do it in
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- British government warned not to back EU palm oil ban so it can keep selling arms to Malaysia
- (tags: weaponry business environment government UK Malaysia )
- The Ocado robot swarms that pack your shopping
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- EU tells Trump he doesn’t have the power to unilaterally scrap the Iran nuclear deal
- (tags: Iran Europe usa )
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Date: 2018-05-12 07:32 am (UTC)I went to a presentation last year on reconstructing Ancient Greek music, specifically for the aulos or double flute, by a chap called Barnaby Brown who is one of the aulos players in this clip. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4hOK7bU0S1Y
As I'm not a musician I had been under the impression that Ancient Greek flutes sounded like modern ones, ie rather breathy and delicate. But the auloi had reeds and sounded much more like bagpipes. I had always been a bit confused about how the Greeks used flute music to keep the time on triremes, but this makes a lot more sense. I now have images of massed choirs and aulos players marching up to the Acropolis on festival days.