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for something unusual? How about 'The Elephant' played on a Serpent? Or an Italian Rant on
a Lizard?
I
play some of the most obscure musical instruments ever invented, and can talk
entertainingly on their history and use.
I am Chief Waite of the King's Lynn
Waites - a Medieval and Renaissance Town Band, and I can also sing you bawdy ballads,
accompanying myself on the cittern or the lute.
My daughter, Elizabeth Gutteridge and I perform together as the Renaissance duo, Wyldes Noyse.
I am Musical Director of The Norfolk Gallery Quire - a re-creation of a typical village church choir in pre-Victorian times, accompanied by the village band. The band, The Fall Of Eve, can also perform dances and marches from the 18th and early 19th centuries.
I have recently taken over as Musical Director of Hunstanton Concert Band.
Together with my friend Dr James Merryweather, I founded, and for many years ran, The Waits Website - a vast and comprehensive academic site designed to accumulate and disseminate knowledge of the Renaissance civic bands of Britain and Europe, and I am a life member, director and trustee of The International Guild of Town Pipers, registered charity number 1124144.
I am also a professional website designer with a wide range of sites of all types and styles, though I tend to specialise in sites for the arts. See White Cottage Websites for a list of my sites.