Comments on: Sotheby’s Sells Medieval Hunting Horn http://neveryetmelted.com/2009/01/27/sothebys-sells-medieval-hunting-horn/ The essential American soul is hard, isolate, stoic, and a killer. It has never yet melted. -- D.H. Lawrence Fri, 10 Feb 2012 04:06:15 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3 By: peter dedman http://neveryetmelted.com/2009/01/27/sothebys-sells-medieval-hunting-horn/comment-page-1/#comment-173673 peter dedman Tue, 19 Apr 2011 00:13:55 +0000 http://neveryetmelted.com/index.php/sothebys-sells-medieval-hunting-horn/#comment-173673 oh and another thing ,,about oliphant he also was the leader of a team which developed the magnatron in the united states ,,which made the radar system more powerfull and mobile ,,and the modern radar was used during the marianas turkey shoot in the pacific where the allies shot down neally all the japanes planes attached with the use of radar,,,peter dedman west australia tel 0404866571 oh and another thing ,,about oliphant he also was the leader of a team which developed the magnatron in the united states ,,which made the radar system more powerfull and mobile ,,and the modern radar was used during the marianas turkey shoot in the pacific where the allies shot down neally all the japanes planes attached with the use of radar,,,peter dedman west australia tel 0404866571

]]> By: peter dedman http://neveryetmelted.com/2009/01/27/sothebys-sells-medieval-hunting-horn/comment-page-1/#comment-173672 peter dedman Tue, 19 Apr 2011 00:05:35 +0000 http://neveryetmelted.com/index.php/sothebys-sells-medieval-hunting-horn/#comment-173672 My grandmothers name was olifent from moonta in south australia ,,her cousin was sir marcus oliphant ,,he changed his name from olifent to oliphant in his 20s,, he was a nuclear scientist who after the death of sir ernest rutherford discivered tritium of hhdrogen 3 ,whidh is the nuclear material used in the hydrogen bomb,,I did not know till recently that oliphant ment oliphant horn ,,,, peter dedman west australia My grandmothers name was olifent from moonta in south australia ,,her cousin was sir marcus oliphant ,,he changed his name from olifent to oliphant in his 20s,, he was a nuclear scientist who after the death of sir ernest rutherford discivered tritium of hhdrogen 3 ,whidh is the nuclear material used in the hydrogen bomb,,I did not know till recently that oliphant ment oliphant horn ,,,, peter dedman west australia

]]> By: Erik Roth http://neveryetmelted.com/2009/01/27/sothebys-sells-medieval-hunting-horn/comment-page-1/#comment-140849 Erik Roth Wed, 29 Jul 2009 21:42:31 +0000 http://neveryetmelted.com/index.php/sothebys-sells-medieval-hunting-horn/#comment-140849 I suspect that this might be a musical instrument rather than a hunting horn. The latter were not used to play tunes but blown in a series of long and short blasts similar to Morse code. A hunting horn would normally have two noticeable points where the baldric was attached. I suspect that this might be a musical instrument rather than a hunting horn. The latter were not used to play tunes but blown in a series of long and short blasts similar to Morse code. A hunting horn would normally have two noticeable points where the baldric was attached.

]]> By: Sallie Parker http://neveryetmelted.com/2009/01/27/sothebys-sells-medieval-hunting-horn/comment-page-1/#comment-135754 Sallie Parker Wed, 28 Jan 2009 04:20:28 +0000 http://neveryetmelted.com/index.php/sothebys-sells-medieval-hunting-horn/#comment-135754 > WHAT? a) The Byzantines WERE Catholic throughout most of this period. Why not say simply "Christian," to keep it simple? b) Sicily had been Christian (Catholic) for most of the previous millennum, save for a 200-year interregnum of Mohammedan pirates, during which time few if any Sicilians became Moslems. >

WHAT? a) The Byzantines WERE Catholic throughout most of this period. Why not say simply “Christian,” to keep it simple? b) Sicily had been Christian (Catholic) for most of the previous millennum, save for a 200-year interregnum of Mohammedan pirates, during which time few if any Sicilians became Moslems.

]]> By: David Iams http://neveryetmelted.com/2009/01/27/sothebys-sells-medieval-hunting-horn/comment-page-1/#comment-135752 David Iams Tue, 27 Jan 2009 23:20:42 +0000 http://neveryetmelted.com/index.php/sothebys-sells-medieval-hunting-horn/#comment-135752 What a pleasant departure from the angry assertions on both sides that fill up so much of your space. I first heard of the "Chanson de Roland" 60 years ago as a grade schooler and still remember his refusal to sound the "oliphant" when he was besieged at the Battle of Roncevalles until it was too late. Odd, too, how those names appear. Roland was equivalent to Orlando, and Oliphant, if memory serves, is a political cartoonist. What a pleasant departure from the angry assertions on both sides that fill up so much of your space. I first heard of the “Chanson de Roland” 60 years ago as a grade schooler and still remember his refusal to sound the “oliphant” when he was besieged at the Battle of Roncevalles until it was too late. Odd, too, how those names appear. Roland was equivalent to Orlando, and Oliphant, if memory serves, is a political cartoonist.

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