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Hume was also known as a prankster, as some of his somewhat unusual compositions illustrate. His most notorious piece was "An
Invention for Two to Play upone one Viole", also known as Prince's Almayne. Two bows are required and the smaller of the two players is obliged to sit in the lap of the larger
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to parliament offering either to defeat the rebels in
Ireland with a hundred 'instruments of war,' or, if furnished with a complete navy, to bring the king within three months twenty millions of money. He styles himself 'colonel,' but the rank was probably of his own invention, for in the entry of
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it was only in 1991 that the court accounts of James VI's consort Anne of
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in 1629, a prerequisite to which was being at least 50 years old, though there is no certainty over this. He had made his living as a professional soldier, serving as an officer with the
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and is indeed technically possible to play. His instructions to "drum this with the backe of your bow" in another piece, "Harke, harke," from the
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Christmas 1629 he entered Charterhouse as a poor brother. His mind seems to have given way, for in July 1642 he published a rambling
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his death, which took place at
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Little is known of his life. Some have suggested that he was born in 1579 because he was admitted to the
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