We recovered 5 mouth harps from Bright's Trading House/ Montgomery  
Tavern site at Arkansas Post, primary occupations dating 1804-1821  
(See Arkansas Archeological Survey Research Series No. 11).  Context  
did not allow attribution to one occupation or the other, though mouth  
harps were not among the many items listed in documents from the major  
contemporary traders in the region.

PEMartin


At 07:08 PM 1/31/2010, you wrote:
> Histarchers,
>
> 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.
>
> Thanks for your help.
>
> -April
>
> ---------------------------
> April M. Beisaw, Ph.D.
> Assistant Professor, Heidelberg University
> ---------------------------

Patrick E. Martin
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