Dru, Robert Bewick's pipes can be seen in the Chantry in Morpeth. A very beautiful ivory set by John Dunn. As I remember, it has an engraved silver ferrule on the drone stock giving details of the provenance. The chanter presently with the set is without keys, nicely made and a fairly generic ivory simple chanter but probably not the original one.
Francis On 14 Jul 2007, at 10:34, Dru Brooke-Taylor wrote: > This is probably a question that reveals me as an ignoramus. > > In Jenny Uglow's book 'Nature's Engraver' about Thomas Bewick - really > good read by the way - she says:- > > "Robert [i.e. Robert Bewick, son of Thomas Bewick] died in July 1849, > aged 61. At the end of her life, Isabella [daughter of Thomas Bewick; > she died c 1883] gave his pipes to a local school. 'as Miss B___ would > like to have them take care of, as they belonged to a near and very > dear relation of hers'. His manuscript books of songs and variations, > like those of his master Peacock, are now regarded as priceless." > > Presumably that is the tunebook that has been published. But which > school was it, and what happened to the pipes since? And does everyone > else know the answer to this except me? > > The book contains a reproduction of a painting of Robert as a boy > playing his pipes, and on page 398 a description by William Bell Scott > of meeting him and hearing him play sometime in the 1840s, curiously > describing him as 'carrying the union pipes under his arm'. > > Dru > > > > To get on or off this list see list information at > http://www.cs.dartmouth.edu/~wbc/lute-admin/index.html
