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Thread #110424   Message #2454958
Posted By: GUEST,Volgadon
01-Oct-08 - 01:10 PM
Thread Name: England's National Musical-Instrument?
Subject: RE: England's National Musical-Instrument?
And the recorder is of Continental origin, the cittern is German, the tabor possibly comes from North Africa via Spain, and the violin/fiddle is Italian.
The sousaphone and the tuba were widely used in trad jazz, which was very popular for many decades in Britain, and which your parents probably grew up listening to. It's probably as English as morris dancing.
To repeat-

Recorder- Continental Europe.
Cittern- German.
Fiddle- Italian.