The Bird Fancyer’s Delight
Selected tunes from Bird Fancyer’s Delight, performed by Laurence Trott
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The Bird Fancyer’s Delight is an English manual intended to help eager bird owners teach their caged nightingales or linnets how to sing. It provided species-specific tunes, which the owner would play on a recorder or flageolet until the bird learned to echo the notes. Miller commented that “This copy is complete and is the only known copy of this early edition. The British Museum Library possesses a copy of an edition of about 1730 which is described in Christopher Welch’s ‘Six Lectures on the Recorder.’”
<em>The Bird Fancyer’s Delight</em> is an English manual intended to help eager bird owners teach their caged nightingales or linnets how to sing. It provided species-specific tunes, which the owner would play on a recorder or flageolet until the bird learned to echo the notes. Miller commented that “This copy is complete and is the only known copy of this early edition. The British Museum Library possesses a copy of an edition of about 1730 which is described in Christopher Welch’s ‘Six Lectures on the Recorder.’”