G'day all,

MTed: re you post of 25-Feb-00 - 04:46 PM, I don't think MMario actually used the word record and it certainly meant something different again to the Elizabethans ... to teach by practice. This sense is still preserved in the fipple whistles (block flutes) we st still call recorders - instruments used (inter alia) to teach new tunes to canaries!

Of course, whether the difference between the tune played on the recorder and that whistled by the canary made it a folk tune ...?

Regard(les)s,

Bob Bolton