Making a bit of a Bosch, no?
You know, I can quite get behind the idea of studying pre-modern music by looking at the musical instruments in paintings and trying to reconstruct them and seeing what they sound like.
Howsomedever, I would not start with the musical instruments in the paintings of Hieronymous Bosch...
Which were surely intended to be unplayable, except, possibly, by some Monster From His Id (or according to some authorities, Allegorical Figure of Heretical Religious Significance) with unusual, and unusual numbers of, digits (or tentacles)? Or at the very least, supposed to sound horrible when played?
Am reminded, in the sense of similar Point Thar U Hav Misst It, of the woman in Peter Dickinson's The Green Gene who is trying to breed back to a kind of dog depicted in the works of a C17th Dutch painter of interiors. As her children point out, he may have been good at pots and pans and bowls of fruit, but he was hopeless at painting a dog that looked anything like an actual pooch.
(I commented some while ago about a Brueghel + Rubens painting in the Hague of the Garden of Eden which showed that breed differentiation of various kinds of dogs had already taken place before the Fall. But Brueghel & Rubens could clearly paint teh doggiez like woah.)
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Really rather inadvisable reasons for marrying:
Upon discovering the full horror of what I had subscribed to, I immediately resigned from the NF, less than a month after joining. Four years later, at the age of 20, I married a Jewish girl - in part, as atonement.
Not surprisingly, they are 'Long since divorced'.
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