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This Day in History: 1700-05-14

Matthias Shore, father of William and John Shore, appointed trumpeter-in-ordinary to Charles II and James II, promoted to Sergeant Trumpeter to royal household, friend to Henry Purcell, proponent of John Hyde’s flatt trumpet (a backward-going slide trumpet), died on this day.

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