"The instruments were the same as the ones in the
village band: flute, drum, goat-pipes, fiddle; and yet
they were not quite the same, for each possessed
a strangeness that set it apart.

What ordinary drum cries poetry when beaten?
What flute plays three tunes at once, each blending
perfectly with the others? The fiddle soared like a lark.

The sound of this band was intoxicating to the ears,
the kind of felicitous blend a village musician aspires
to and may achieve only once in a lifetime. It made
feet move faster, pulses race, faces flush. It set hearts
thumping and coaxed smiles from the most sombre mouths."

~ Wildwood Dancing, Juliet Marillier

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Cover: Kinuko Y Craft, http://www.kycraft.com/

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