[Ads-l] Antedating of G-string

[Laurence Horn]

> On Apr 6, 2016, at 3:57 PM, Dan Goncharoff <thegonch at GMAIL.COM> wrote:
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> I just want to point out that the song was called "The Roving Kind".

As Wilson meant to type, I'm sure.

LH

> On Apr 6, 2016 3:25 PM, "Wilson Gray" <hwgray at gmail.com> wrote:
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>> On Wed, Apr 6, 2016 at 9:39 AM, Laurence Horn <laurence.horn at yale.edu>
>> wrote:
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>>> Hmmm.  I believe that's a somewhat different ballad, "Ramblin' Boy".  ;-)
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>> Say what, now? _What_ "is a somewhat different ballad, "Ramblin' Boy"?
>> "Different" from what, Homer, Jr.? μοι ἔννεπε, μοῦσα. ;-)
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