User:Nick Michael

Welcome! Me I am English born, bred and educated (Lambrook, Rugby), but have lived in French-speaking Switzerland since 1971. Interests I am interested in a myriad of subjects, from antique arms and armour, philology and motor bikes (but too old now...) to genealogy [1] [2], antique British silverware and cooking (historical and modern), but the following often take precedence in my life: • German renaissance prints (particularly by the brothers Beham and the Hopfer family). • Renaissance music, particularly early keyboard music, and more particularly the English 'Virginalists': Byrd, Bull, Farnaby, Gibbons, Tomkins, Philips etc. I can put it no better than Colin Tilney: ... the keyboard music written in England from about 1580 to 1625 had no equal anywhere for gravity and brilliance, for learned ease or for sweet melancholy. It is simply one of the imaginative summits of Western art, a brief miracle, challenging in its technical demands and utterly satisfying in its hold on the ear and the mind. • Early drinking glasses. • Early diaries and travel journals. Quick Info Click here to see my favourite cartoon. Bookmarks This user contributes to Wikimedia Commons. @ This user can be reached by email. My contributions (new articles or major expansions) The Mulliner Book The Dublin Virginal Manuscript My Ladye Nevells Booke Susanne van Soldt Manuscript Clement Matchett's Virginal Book Parthenia Priscilla Bunbury's Virginal Book Elizabeth Roger's Virginal Book Anne Cromwell's Virginal Book Virginals Virginalist Christopher Tye John Redford John Blitheman John Bull Giles Farnaby John Mundy Peter Philips Hendrik Speuy Thomas Tomkins William Tisdale Francis Tregian the Elder Francis Tregian the Younger Pierre Phalèse the Elder Patrick Montan Anne Gallet Mitzi Meyerson Daniel Hopfer Antoine, bastard of Burgundy Thomas Percy John Thomlinson William Kenrick The Wheellock mechanism and operation Vich, Switzerland Donneloye Donneloye Castle Lambrook School This user has been a major contributor to 2 articles featured in the Did you know... section on the Main Page.

Guess who Babel enThis user is a native speaker of the English language. fr-4Cet utilisateur parle français à un niveau comparable à la langue maternelle. it-1Questo utente può contribuire con un livello semplice di italiano. de-0Dieser Benutzer hat keine Deutschkenntnisse.