Guest 696- Registered: 31 Mar 2010
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12 October 2010
00:5974601#1
Britain's earliest written testimony to the bagpipe is by William Chausser, in the prologue to the Canterbury Tales. The instrument was played in Canterbury, and many followed the piper to listen.
It is not known when the bagpipe reached the British Isles, all we know is that it reached world literary fame in Kent seven hundred years ago! People came from far and wide to Canterbury to listen to the bagpipe.
Guest 696- Registered: 31 Mar 2010
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12 October 2010
01:1674602#2
Geoffrey Caucer, William is his cousin.
Brian Dixon
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12 October 2010
06:2374604#3
alex,are bagpipes a fetish for you,you seem to be blowing on about them alot.
Guest 696- Registered: 31 Mar 2010
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12 October 2010
09:3474626#4
And you about 'Europe and the euro', Brian!