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John Kilpatrick with the dog in the River Sheaf, from which Sheffield takes its name. 
The Sheaf at this point is fordable at many points, except after heavy rain when it can become a torrent, washing down garden furniture and other objects. There are always enough deep spots where the unusually white "border collie cross" can enjoy a drink and a swim. Sheffield has plentiful woodland and park walks, and is reasonably free of dog-on-lead notices (who could keep up with a border collie on a lead, anyway?).

Sadly the dog is no more. She was with us for 13 years, and died at around 15-16 years old, 4 years after first suffering a stroke.

 John Kilpatrick River Sheaf

A contrabass clarinet: Leblanc BBb "paperclip" type, 1970.

A square piano by Joh. Kruse, c.1830, and a harpsichord by John Kilpatrick from a Storrs kit, 1991
Harpsichord lid motto:

  IN
  OMNEM TERRAM
  EXIVIT SONVS EORVM
  sonus eorum
 "their sound is gone out into all lands"
(I understand that one of my harpsichords has found its way to Japan)

Flap motto (facing away):
          HI
          TRES
         VNVM
          SVNT
   hi tres unum sunt
 "these three are one" 
( the instrument has three choirs of strings)		 Fall-board motto (this board drops down at the front and comes off):

DECVS ET TVTAMEN
decus et tutamen
"an ornament and a safeguard"
(the motto found on the edge of many UK £1 coins)

leblanc contrabass clarinet

Storrs harspichord and Kruse square piano
The square piano has been sold. 
The Jumblies went to sea in a sieve FREE CHORAL MUSIC

Visit John Kilpatrick's music page for my compositions, including settings nonsense poems by Gelett Burgess and by Edward Lear.
Visit Percy Snowdon's page for his arrangements of Northumbrian Folk Songs and some short choral pieces. 
Visit John Earwaker's page for his thought-provoking musical "Cousin John" and for his other religious compositions and his folk-song arrangements.
Visit the miscellaneous music page for free editions of works by Henry VIII, Kedrov, Mendelssohn, Monteverdi, Palestrina, Pearsall, Purcell & Schütz. Also find there the libretti (words and translations) of Bach's St John Passion, and Monteverdi's Vespers of 1610, and other works.

Found: Narnia Book Voyage of the Dawn Treader