> Does anyone know the approximate size of laterna barrels?
> There's one on sale here in Turkey but it's under 5 cm [2"]
> diameter, which seems too small to me...  Thanks.
>
>[ See http://mmd.foxtail.com/Pictures/greinacher3.html  Christian's
>[ instrument plays a pinned barrel of 21 cm (8.25") diameter.
>[ -- Robbie

The laternae I saw strolling the streets of Thessaloniki (a.k.a.
Thessalonica or Salonica) looked like the ones in this photograph.
A barrel of two inches seems awfully small by comparison, but there is
no reason that there couldn't be a miniature version of the instrument.

Mark Kinsler