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Cathf
 05 Oct 2006, 13:22 #13755 Reply To Post
In 208 pages he told how the Guild of Funerary Violinists – motto Nullus Funus Sine Fidula (No Funeral Without A Fiddle) - had been established in 1580, received a Royal warrant from Queen Elizabeth 1, flourished under practitioners like George Babcotte and Herr Hieronymous Gratchenfleiss, and was almost wiped out by the "great funerary purges of the 1830’s and 40s."

Such was the fervour of the art, he said, that violinists duelled with each other at funerals to see who could wring the most tears from mourners...

... Except, as has now been discovered, there is, nor never was, any such thing as a funerary violin, nor a guild, nor a Royal warrant, nor a history, let alone an incomplete one.

But there must be - there's a picture of someone playing one on his website (OK, so it doesn't come out for some reason, but the website's http://www.rohan-k.co.uk)

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/pages/live/articles/news/news.html?in_article_id=408588&in_page_id=1770





This post was last edited by Cathf, 05 Oct 2006, 13:29
visinker
 05 Oct 2006, 14:55 #13764 Reply To Post
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Nullus Funus Sine Fidula (No Funeral Without A Fiddle)


That would be enough to give it away, surely?

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Cathf
 05 Oct 2006, 15:09 #13765 Reply To Post
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That would be enough to give it away, surely?


If not, you'd think Herr Hieronymous Gratchenfleiss, and the "great funerary purges of the 1830’s and 40s would have done it.

Still, easy for us to mock...

I particularly liked the comment of one journal editor who'd turned down a paper by the guy

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The final straw, she said, was when Mr Kriwaczek, who has a website devoted to the subject complete with recordings of funeral laments, sent them a letter supposedly written by Hieronymous Gratchenfleiss "which had just been written on an old looking font and someone had spilled tea on."
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