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[–] 5 points 5 months ago (2 children)

No concertina? It's like the piratey-est instrument!

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  • [–] [S] 4 points 5 months ago (1 child)

    The concertina has historically been a favorite instrument among people who travel often (due to its small and compact size), leading it to be a common instrument among soldiers, sailors, and cowboys. One was even brought aboard Robert Peary's 1891 expedition of the Greenland Arctic. Despite the pop-culture association of the concertina with the Golden Age of Piracy, the concertina was invented approximately 100 years after the heyday of piracy in the North Atlantic.

    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Concertina

    Huh neat.

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  • [–] 2 points 5 months ago

    Despite the pop-culture association of the concertina with the Golden Age of Piracy, the concertina was invented approximately 100 years after the heyday of piracy in the North Atlantic.

    Shiver me timbers. Me whole worldview be built on a lie.

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