Schyle is a typo for scythe and not an obscure Suffolk musical instrument! Although now I think back on it, what the world calls a scythe tended to be called in Suffolk a sickle, and what the Soviet flag called a sickle was called a billhook. Which brings me to the term 'a music' A Music in Suffolk was primarily a musical instrument of unspecified nature -'He yu brought yu music wi yu boi?' could be anything from a whistle to a hammer dulcimer. But by far the most popular instruments in Suffolk were squeezy ones; and these were generally called accordians. An accordian was rarely anything the Hohner company would recognise. All melodians were accordians and quite often concertinas were as well!
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