Helen Fayrefax’s group of baroque instrumentalists and singers have been meeting regularly in the schoolroom at the Old Meeting House, Tenterden Unitarian Church. Among those taking part recently were a a baroque flutist using modern copies of period instruments made of boxwood by Venner and stained with Nitric acid to bring out the grain.

A whole day was spent doing Telemann arias from his church cantatas. These included a baroque oboe and a tenor soloist. As he had was contracted to compose a fresh cantata every week he wrote over 500!