The Hidden Almanac for 2017-04-03

Today we celebrate the life of Margaret Smallgrass. It is the Feast Day of Accordions, and in the garden, there was a Standing Stone.

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Posted in 2017, Almanac on 3 April 2017 by Rev. Mord
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On April 7, 2017 at 12:10 am, James said:
The forth instrument may have been the slide whistle.

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On April 7, 2017 at 6:33 pm, Lucius Appaloosius said:
An old musicologists’ legend tells that the hurdy-gurdy (the stringed instrument, not the barrel organ) once challenged the bagpipe for supremacy, but was defeated and made the bagpipe’s servant.

The only surviving clue about the Fourth Instrument comes from a fragment of Acidophilus’ comedy “The Figs”, where there is a slighting reference to “that moon-[faced?] twanging bastard”. Unfortunately, the many lacunae in the text prevent a more accurate reading. 7@=Q

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