THE KING'S "MUSICK"
Sir Dalford Davies is the new- "Mas-! ter of-the King's, Musick'." In hygone days the Master had to watch over and instruct and compose for the 24 fiddlers ■who played while the King was at meals,- or- amusing himself, - and they played even in church. The fiddlers fidaied the.King's baud of musicians out of fashion. After Charles II the King's hand ceased to be one of strings only, and gradually diminished and changed to the-requirements, of modern music. Jn 1526 the: band of Henry VIII consisted.* .of 15 trumpets, three lutes, threo rebecks (a kind of fiddle), three -tabors;' ia" harp, 'two ■ viols,-- ten sa-ckbufs-..a^-fifey;and four -drumslades A-few- J'earsM-atc'r'.the Sing added three minstrel*.
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Evening Post, Volume CXVIII, Issue 13, 16 July 1934, Page 16
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