Monday, January 3, 2011

Piper

Someone capable of playing a penny whistle.

"The forty men in the flutists' circle played most marvelously. The sound of their flutes, mingled with the sighing of the pines, was like a wind coming down from deep mountains. 'Waves of the Blue Ocean,' among falling leaves of countless hues, had about it an almost frightening beauty."

Murasaki Shikibu, The Tale of Genji (11th Century).

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