PEPYS PIPES
"BUT what did please me _ beyond anything in the whole world was the wind musique when the angel comes down; which is so sweet that it ravished me, and indeed in a word, did wrap up my soul so that it made me really sick, just as I have formerly been when in love with my wife; so that neither then, nor all the evening going home, was I able to think of anything, but remained all night transported, so as I cannot believe that ever any musique hath that real command over the soul of man as this did upon me; and makes me resolve to practise wind-musique, and to make my wife do the like." This is from the diary of Samuel Pepys who had just been to a play he did not think much of-The Virgin Martyr. But it started him off on another instrument and six weeks later he went to Drumbleby’s and bought a recorder. These and other amusing scenes can be heard in Musical Gleanings from \the Diary of Samuel Pepys-a series of programmes with narration in dialogue form by R,
R. Beauchamp and oC. Ao ren at | present being broadcast from 3YC on Tuesday evenings at 7.0 p.m
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New Zealand Listener, Volume 36, Issue 927, 17 May 1957, Page 15
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207PEPYS PIPES New Zealand Listener, Volume 36, Issue 927, 17 May 1957, Page 15
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