The Early Music Legend

        There are three  links to British Film Institute  material on David Murnow which may be of interest. I believe films/programmes can be downloaded for viewing if one is a member of BFI. I am not fully sure of the details............Anyway, the links.......... http://ftvdb.bfi.org.uk/sift/title/769042     david munrow memorial programme http://ftvdb.bfi.org.uk/sift/title/9453   ancestral voices programmes http://ftvdb.bfi.org.uk/sift/series/4216     early musical instruments I also discovered entries relating to Music in the Round but not the Munrow entry. Robert Searle

Sunday, November 24, 2013 Toys and Techniques blog                                                                                     ....... The above show was called Early Musical Instruments and aired in 1976. There were 6 episodes, each involving Munrow and a group of Englishmen making a racket with a certain family of instruments - reed instruments, strummed ones, percussion, etc. Some of them are positively evil looking, such as the gemshorn, a recorder made seemingly out of satan's antlers, or various guitar-like monsters with about twenty strings and nightmarish dragon-like tuning heads. The series was filmed at the beautiful and eerie Ordsall Hall in...