Posted November 23, 2017 1:47 pm by Comments

By James Rummel

A little something to carve the turkey.

A notation knife, with music and song etched into the blade, circa 1500 CE or so. One side contains the grace, while the other side has a song of thanks.

The knife pictured above is housed at the Victoria and Albert Museum in the great city of London. Click this link to be taken to the V&A website page that talks about the knife. You can even listen to modern reproductions of the songs, kind of like listening to an echo from half millennium ago.

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