re: Accuracy?

"I'd like to hear their simulation of a modern harp, compared with the real thing, to verify that their algorithm produces the correct output. Until their model is proven to be accurate, the results have no meaning."

Actually you can't prove things that way, you would only prove it can synthesise a harp accurately. You might have a good guess that it works for an epigonion as well as a harp, but even if you had an original epigonion to compare it with, you'd could only prove that its sounds like an ancient epigonion sounds today. There is no guarantee you are duplicating what it used to sound like when it wasn't ancient.

Be careful not to into the trap of rubbish science where extrapolations are made from what we know to be true and then the extrapolations are then presented as "fact".

That said, it isn't a criticism of the work. They probably had to pick an instrument and one of the research team had a fascination with ancient music.

Where's the Paris Hilton angle?