Hi. Kathy Cande scored an ever popular juice harp/Jews harp/whatever 
at the 1818-1825 site of a building licensed as a tavern in 
Davidsonville 1815-1830s, now Old Davidsonville Historic State Park 
in northeast Arkansas. Ask her for yourself at [log in to unmask] She's 
with the Sponsored Research Program of the Arkansas Archeological 
Survey. Kathy and her team also found actual gosh darn pieces of 
eight in the same trash filled hole in the ground, but that's an 
answer to a different question.

  At 07:08 PM 1/31/2010, you wrote:
>Histarchers,
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>I am looking for information on musical instruments (or pieces 
>thereof) that have been recovered from excavations of tavern sites. 
>I have a carved mammal bone mouthpiece to a wind instrument and am 
>trying to ascertain how unusual it is to recover instruments from 
>sites where music may have been a relatively common form of entertainment.
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>Thanks for your help.
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>-April
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>April M. Beisaw, Ph.D.
>Assistant Professor, Heidelberg University
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