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Article: Meet the English musician whose bagpipes are a vital part of his Leicester family tree
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- The Scotsman
- Article date:
- September 23, 2009
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THE bagpipes of merry England ... it doesn't quite have the right
ring, does it, to our ears and assumptions attuned to pipes played
by men in tartan? Yet England once resounded with its own bagpipes -
in fact, the earliest written record of bagpipes in Britain comes
from English court records in 1334, around a century before their
appearance in written accounts north of the Border.
In The Canterbury Tales, Chaucer wrote of his Miller that "a
baggepipe well coude he blowe and sowne". Shakespeare referred to
"the drone of a Lincolnshire bagpipe", while Henry VIII, when not
decapitating wives or dissolving monasteries, was a piping adept. As
late as 1732, one chronicler recorded "a very ...
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