Thank you Francis. Dru
On 14 Jul 2007, at 11:41, Francis Wood wrote: > 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 > > >
