Politics are Pacifist and libertarian with responsibility - that rules out most major political parties!!
Other interests, somewhat dormant at the moment include Morris dancing, Mummers plays, West Gallery music.
Music
Early music. That is: Mediaeval such as Landini and Dufay; Renaissance (Josquin, Byrd, Monteverdi) and Baroque (Purcell, Telemann, Couperin and Boismortier) to Classical (Haydn & Hook).
Also English Folk song & dance
Movies
Harry Potter.
Productions by Aardman Animations.
Productions by Small Films (Oliver Postgate & Peter Firmin)
Winstanley
, Ken Russell's Elgar, Through the Bleak Midwinter, Snowcake
Television
I don't watch it. Inveterate listener to BBC Radio 3 and Radio 4. Two best programmes? - Building a library/CD review (R3)and Round Britain Quiz.(R4)
Books
Shakespeare, Tom Stoppard, JK Rowling, Leon Garfield, Joan Aiken, Robert Holdstock, Frances Hardinge.
Heroes
All my amazingly patient music teachers - Charles Daniels (piano), Jeremy Patterson (theory), Henry Scheuer (flute), David Munrow (preclassical appreciation), Edgar Hunt ( baroque flute) .
and please take a look at The Musick Cabinet and Origo MySpace pages (in my friends list).
I am now on Skype carl.willetts
I play early instruments such as renaissance & baroque flutes, renaissance and baroque recorders, serpent, crumhorn, shawms, pommers, curtal (dulcian), bagpipes, pibgryn, kortholt, rackett, pipe & tabor, baroque bassoon.
The music currently up is Mainerio's L'arboscello Ballo Furlano played on a quartet of crumhorns (soprano, alto tenor. bass) by the Canterbury Waits (me on top line).
I am a member of:
The Galpin Society for the study of Musical Instruments,
The Society of Recorder Players,
The British Flute Society,
The English Folk Dance and Song Society,
The Northumbrian Pipers Society.
The day job is as an industrial chemist in a paper mill, specialising in chemical health & safety matters.
Here are some of my family, teachers and friends, past and present!
Who I'd like to meet: Early musicians plus other old instrument enthusiasts. Players of renaissance flute, baroque flute, Boehm flute (especially wooden Rudall Carte - although my other flute is a Powell), recorders, serpent, shawms,crumhorns, pipe & tabor.
Players of Roland C-190 organs
Long lost friends from school (George Dixon Grammar School, Birmingham), UMIST, workplaces and music groups.
New friends please note: If you are sending me a friend request, please add a short message to indicate our mutual interest, if it isn't obvious! Thanks.
I say, what a fantastic serpent you have! Last time I saw one of those was in the Horniman museum as a kid, and I was always upset they were stuck behind glass so you couldn't play them :-(
Hi Carl....thanks for the req. It is a pleasure to meet you here. You have a very interesting website....It would be great to hear some of the mp3's but I couldn't find them. That boxwood flute is a beauty :) Best wishes from the states. Lynda
Greetings Carl very happy to know you love your musical style and passion,i have lots of african instruments like these ,,great to jam with one love ,have good evening ,,joss :)
