- a
valentine (the whole inscription reads: "You
can make music on the strings of my heart");
- and
a series of cartoons by Ian Clabburn, who discovered
after he had been playing his Dave Williams dulcimer
for some while that his grandfather had been a Norfolk
player and maker years before.
- a
little poem written after a concert, capturing
the various accents and reactions heard in the audience:
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ORPHEUS
RULES - OK??
- Oy
knows fer a bloke called Kettlewell
- Er
lives ower Tisbury nauw.
- Gaw,
dudn E play them fings Ers got?
- All
sorts o fings Er plays - the lot!
- (Yes,
loves he tunes his metal well)
- But,
may dyahs, such a farefle rahw!
- Oy
fink they be mosely dollzimmerse:
- 'N
zithererse - oh, 'n arpse.
- Squeeze-boxes
'n fings yer blouw
- 'N
thick andle fing - oh, Oydenoh.
- (For
Art, Polymnia lends him hers)
- Dahlings
- so many flets end sharps!
- Oy
racken Ers quoyt a clever bloke:
- Collidge
'n that, Oy spe'ck
- Oy
fink E clecks them fings Er plays
- All
ower the weld - swod E sayes.
- (His
Orphean spirit visits folk)
- End
his beckgraund, Ay fyah, is suspect.
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(Pip
Potter, 1976)
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