A NICE REMEMBRANCE
From Fritz Spiegl
Flautist, Liverpool, England
A delightful epitaph to a bassoonist is engraved on an oval tablet at
Ashover Church, Derbyshire, England, and will form a part of my forthcoming
book, "A Small Book of Grave Humour" (out at Christmas from Pan
Books).
TO THE MEMORY
of
DAVID WALL
WHOSE SUPERIOR PERFORMANCE
ON THE BASSOON
ENDEARED HIM
TO AN EXTENSIVE MUSICAL
ACQUAINTANCE:
HIS SOCIAL LIFE CLOSED ON
THE 4. OF DECEMBER
1796
IN HIS 57. YEAR