Mike, yes, I'm certainly interested in getting into playing the early stuff again, even if it's only for the hell of it. Incidentally, do you know Steve Mansfield? He plays flutes, recorders, rauschpfeife (or schreierpfeife, as we are told it should be called) etc. with 'Trebuchet'. I'm not sure where he lives, but it's somewhere over Stockport way, I think. I was thinking it would be good for all us noisy buggers to get together! Pity I haven't got the bass shawm any more. It wasn't mine, but belonged to David Griffith, who played the top lines in Chester Waytes, so it's in Orkney, standing in the corner, waiting......I have got an alto shawm, and a soprano rauschpfeife, and a bass curtal on long term loan, plus the alto and tenor crumhorns and one or two other things.
Don't have any contact details for you; perhaps it's time I actually joined Mudcat! J.K.