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Date: Wed, 9 Apr 1997 23:52:57 -0500 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-19) |
 | | The open-ended smallpipe of the 17th and 18th century was in fact a failure. |
| | If the smallpipes were musically derived from the musette, and their only cultural function had been to play for the upper classes, Peacock's Tunes would be filled with minuets (it has only one, as does Dixon) and songs with basso continuo parts. |
| | I suspect that the smallpipes were an invention at the behest (or to curry favour) with the cultured classes, but I suspect the open ended chanters were basically dissatisfying to the musicians of the time, because none of this tradition has survived. |
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