Wasn't Sebastian's grandpa, Christoph Bach, a town piper in Erfurt?


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From: lute-...@cs.dartmouth.edu [mailto:lute-...@cs.dartmouth.edu] On Behalf Of 
Francis Wood
Sent: 28 May 2009 09:57
To: <christopher.bi...@ec.europa.eu>
Cc: Dartmouth NPS
Subject: [NSP] Re: smallpipes


On 28 May 2009, at 09:26, <christopher.bi...@ec.europa.eu> 
<christopher.bi...@ec.europa.eu 
 > wrote:

> I also think Bach, Berg and the Beatles
>  are pretty good.

I think they were all pretty awful pipers.

Don't know about J. S. Bach.  This, though, from Dr. Johnson, in  
Boswell's 'Life of . . ."

>
> "Bach, Sir? Bach's concert? And pray, Sir, who is Bach? Is he a  
> piper?"'
>

J. C. Bach, of course.

Francis





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