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Laterna Barrel Diameter
By Mark Kinsler

> Does anyone know the approximate size of laterna barrels?
> There's one on sale here in Turkey but it's under 5 cm [2"]
> diameter, which seems too small to me...  Thanks.
>
>[ See http://mmd.foxtail.com/Pictures/greinacher3.html  Christian's
>[ instrument plays a pinned barrel of 21 cm (8.25") diameter.
>[ -- Robbie

The laternae I saw strolling the streets of Thessaloniki (a.k.a.
Thessalonica or Salonica) looked like the ones in this photograph.
A barrel of two inches seems awfully small by comparison, but there is
no reason that there couldn't be a miniature version of the instrument.

Mark Kinsler


(Message sent Wed 31 May 2006, 22:57:10 GMT, from time zone GMT-0400.)

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