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Thread #110424   Message #2463500
Posted By: WalkaboutsVerse
12-Oct-08 - 06:04 AM
Thread Name: England's National Musical-Instrument?
Subject: RE: England's National Musical-Instrument?
...either way, I just enjoyed hearing "the beast", Will Fly; going back to some earlier beasts, it's interesting to note, as Shakespeare did in Hamlet, the similarities in the workings of the pipe organ and the recorder/"little organ": one has many fippled pipes of varied length, the other is one - with an effective-length varied via covering holes..."Govern these ventages with your fingers and thumb, give it breath with your mouth, and it will discourse most eloquent music...?