The Mudcat Café TM
Thread #110424   Message #2463723
Posted By: WalkaboutsVerse
12-Oct-08 - 01:12 PM
Thread Name: England's National Musical-Instrument?
Subject: RE: England's National Musical-Instrument?
Pip - it's because the likes of you and Woody keep going off-topic and leaving me no choice but to respond.
Here's my, on-thread, post just before Woody's re-accusation:
...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...?