Chanters Sentence Examples

Ordericus Vitalis, who died in the first half of the 12th century, mentions that the bishop of St Evroul, in Normandy, brought with him from Apulia in southern Italy several large pieces of silk, out of the finest of which four copes were made for his cathedral chanters.

He seems to have also reformed the method of conducting the divine services by the aid of his skilled chanters, lEdde and ZEona, and to have established or renewed the rule of St Benedict in the monasteries.

The most complicated sets seen today have 5 drones with a switch for easy key changing, and up to 21 keyed chanters.

They have open-ended chanters, with a parallel (cylindrical) bore, and no keys.