10-25-2006, 01:37 PM
A little late, can't find who made the reference to the whistle, but it set me and another member off seraching for info...apparently the Romans do have whistles...there was a reference to galley slaves being signaled by a whistle...I'll hunt down ref, and an item on sale that was called a whistle...not exactly hard academic evidence but it is worth considering...
No idea of the accuracy of this piece, just a possible chance that whistles exist and they cold be used as a signal, in smaller setting
No idea of the accuracy of this piece, just a possible chance that whistles exist and they cold be used as a signal, in smaller setting
Alan Vales
"That s not how they did it in Gladiator!"
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