Re: Recorders and Gallery Quire music

Posted by GillanP on
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Many thanks, Mike. I totally understand your logic and know your greater musicianship so gladly bow to that for the realities of today's West Gallery Quires.
I think it is the pragmatist and academic in me that sees church groups today grabbing whatever instrument is locally available more or less whatever the consequences and I wonder if that very human behaviour had 'rules' in the West Gallery era? Was it a social convention that certain instruments were confined to hearth and pub or was it the Church with its more refined musicianship that actively looked for instruments that worked in the space and pieces?
I am curious and happy to take research leads if there is no known answer.
Best wishes,
Gillian