Richard Blakemore > Quotes

“Modern representations often depict pirates playing the accordion or some variant of it (also featured in Sea of Thieves), but those instruments did not exist until the 1820s. Much more likely, if they played anything at all, would be contemporary European instruments such as lutes or early guitars, viols, recorders, flutes, hurdy-gurdies, and bagpipes, among many others.”
― Richard Blakemore, Enemies of All: The Rise and Fall of the Golden Age of Piracy