User:Nick Michael

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Welcome! Me I am English born and 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 to genealogy [1] [2] 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. Colin Tilney expresses my own feelings far better than can I: ... 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 My Stats Click here to see my userboxes 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) Parthenia My Ladye Nevells Booke The Mulliner Book Priscilla Bunbury's Virginal Book Elizabeth Roger's Virginal Book Virginals Virginalist Christopher Tye John Redford John Blitheman John Bull Giles Farnaby John Mundy Peter Philips Francis Tregian the Elder Francis Tregian the Younger Pierre Phalèse the Elder Patrick Montan Anne Gallet Bob van Asperen Mitzi Meyerson Daniel Hopfer Antoine, bastard of Burgundy Thomas Percy The Wheellock mechanism and operation Vich, Switzerland

Guess who Me, looking distinguished Babel enThis user is a native speaker of the English language. fr-3Cet utilisateur peut contribuer avec un niveau avancé de français. it-1Questo utente può contribuire con un livello semplice di italiano. de-0Dieser Benutzer hat keine Deutschkenntnisse.