Talk:Aeotana

Create page for Æotana, move article there?

I found a 1908 online copy of the W. L. Hubbard reference, and the only spelling of the instrument is as "æotana"; does the 2005 version spell it differently? If not, I suggest creating a page for Æotana, moving the information in this article there, and deleting this article. Thoughts? - Deathmellow (talk) 18:37, 27 September 2014 (UTC)

I'd say the first order of business is determining whether this instrument actually exists. Sources independent of Hubbard seem to be nonexistent; one wonders whether the aeotana (however you spell it) is as imaginary as the zzxjoanw. —Aɴɢʀ (talk) 09:51, 29 September 2014 (UTC)

That's a really good point. So far, I've searched online databases such as Galileo, JSTOR, and WorldCat, and still nothing. Since Hubbard claims it to be Greek in origin, one possibility could be finding and asking an expert on (ancient) Greek musical instruments, or even a native/fluent Greek speaker who could search for information in Greek works. At the very least, stating how there appear to be no other sources on or about the instrument would expand upon the article. Deathmellow (talk) 14:11, 1 October 2014 (UTC)

A Greek–English Lexicon, which is quite comprehensive in its coverage of Greek words, has no entry for anything even remotely close to aeotana. If this is a hoax, its creator was cleverer than the creator of the zzxjoanw hoax, because he invented a word that is at least plausible in the language he claims it to be. —Aɴɢʀ (talk) 12:22, 2 October 2014 (UTC)