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On his death, the bagpipe collection, books, music manuscripts and photographs were left to the Society of Antiquaries; they were at first housed in the Black Gate Museum, but moved to the Morpeth Chantry Bagpipe Museum in 1987. The collection is a major resource for the study of Northumbrian pipes, their music, and history. [6]
The Snake Charmer is an oil-on-canvas painting by French artist Jean-Léon Gérôme produced around 1879. [1] After it was used on the cover of Edward Said's book Orientalism in 1978, the work "attained a level of notoriety matched by few Orientalist paintings," [2] as it became a lightning-rod for criticism of Orientalism in general and Orientalist painting in particular, although Said ...
William Millin (14 July 1922 – 18 August 2010 [1]), commonly known as Piper Bill, was a Canadian-born Scottish bagpiper, and was personal piper to Simon Fraser, 15th Lord Lovat, commander of the British 1 Special Service Brigade at D-Day.
Snake charmer song, also known as "The Streets of Cairo", or "The Poor Little Country Maid" "Snake charmer" (song) by Teddy Powell (composer) and Leonard Whitcup (lyricist), published 1937; Snakecharmer, by Sort Sol; Snake Charmer, an EP by Jah Wobble, The Edge and Holger Czukay
Competitive piper and instructor Jim McGillivray has said: "Though canntaireachd, the piper's language, is not used as widely now as it was in centuries past, pipers still do - and should - sing." This school of thought maintains that written scores, even those published by Angus MacKay in his Collection of Ancient Piobaireachd (1838), [ 6 ...
The Snake Charmer (French: La Charmeuse de Serpents) is a 1907 oil-on-canvas painting by French Naïve artist Henri Rousseau (1844–1910). It is a depiction of a woman with glowing eyes playing a flute in the moonlight by the edge of a dark jungle with a snake extending toward her from a nearby tree.
These include two quartets for flutes, 'The Realm of Dolls' and 'Scenes from the City of Saint Francis-by-the-Sea'; 'Prelude to Pan,' 'Caprice Terpsichore,' 'A Waltz of the Stars,' and 'Claire de Lune' for flute solo; 'The Snake Charmer,' for flute, voice and piano; 'The Cry of the Flute' for voice and flute; a 'Phantasy Japanoise,' for flute ...
Carlos Núñez Muñoz (born 1971) is a Spanish musician and multi-instrumentalist who plays the gaita, the traditional Galician bagpipe, Galician flute, ocarina, Irish flute, [1] whistle [2] and low whistle.