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Betula makes music in Europe: Three birch horns from Kew’s economic botany collections

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  1. Jenny McCune

    Present address: Department of Anthropology, Eliot College, University of Kent at Canterbury, Kent CT2 7NS, Canterbury, UK

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  1. Centre for Economic Botany, Royal Botanic Gardens, Surrey TW9 3AE, Kew, Richmond, UK

    Jenny McCune

  2. Centre for Economic Botany, Royal Botanic Gardens, Surrey TW9 3AE, Kew, Richmond, UK

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McCune, J., Prendergast, H.D.V. Betula makes music in Europe: Three birch horns from Kew’s economic botany collections. Econ Bot 56, 303–305 (2002). https://doi.org/10.1663/0013-0001(2002)056[0303:BMMIET]2.0.CO;2

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