Tape Recordings

Items 12, 13 and 14 are three cassette recordings.

Cardboard wrapper around the three tapes.

Tapes inside the wrapper

Tape 1 - Talks with Cathedral Staff

The ‘Pupil’s Index and Table of Tape Recordings’ (item 9) usefully lists all the questions asked during the interviews recorded on Tape One, and also indicates who was asking the questions.

Those being interviewed are not stated by name, but only by their office, but most are known.

The identities of the children asking the questions or why they were chosen are unknown, other than their first names, which the narrator uses in the recordings (Track 1 – Sally, Jonathan; Track 2 – Colin (? – sounds like Kahn), Mark; Track 3 – Sally, Jonathan; Track 4 – Colin (?) and others unnamed). The adult’s voice with the children and in the final excerpt is presumably John Figg.

  

Track 1 - The Dean – Marcus Knight, Dean 1960–1972 (see slides 61 and 62)

Track 2 - Head Virger, first interview - Ron Melhuish (see slides 64 and 65)

Track 3 - The Stone Mason - Peter Dare, Master Mason (see slides 22 and 23)

Track 4 - Head Chorister - unidentified (see slides 66-68)

Track 5 - Head Virger, second interview
 

Tape 2 - Cathedral Choir

  

All the recorded music comes from the Cathedral Choir’s 1972 LP, Music from Exeter Cathedral. Director – Lionel Dakers. Organists – Christopher Gower and Paul Morgan.

The selected pieces are the first five tracks on side one of the LP:

  1. Magnificat - Brian Kelly
  2. Tu es Petrus - Palestrina
  3. Bishop Grandisson Service - Thomas Armstrong
  4. Blessed City - Banks
  5. Fanfare for Christmas Day - Martin Shaw
 

Tape 3 - Marriage & Baptism

  

Live recordings of a Marriage and a Baptism service. All spoken, no music or singing. No details are provided.