So You Wanna Time-Travel........

In medieval Wales musicians were celebrated, though I expect bad ones didn't fare so well! I was taught at school that North Wales had the poet's and the South boasted the singers. And so to unite the two halves of the country a wise and noble king came up with the now world famous Eisteddfod where only the best performed and gifts bestowed on the greatest. Choires, dancers, bards and performers of all kinds the world over now come to perform. I took part myself....when I was 10, don't tell anyone, I also performed in the Royal Albert Hall in London.
Legend also says that Merlin was a great bard and harpist, must have been a sideline?     

That's incredible, Bill ... isn't it amazing at how barbaric humans can be to one another ?!?! This is taking "the punishment should fit the crime" principle to a whole new realm. I can think of a whole bunch of pop / hip hop "artists" that should be wearing these. Do they come in case lots? Is there a discount for bulk buys?      

I remember at school our music teacher taking great delight in telling us about Castrato's. For many years, boys and men would use castration as a means to keep their voices at a higher pitch. These opera singers were known as the castrati, and were prevalent during the Baroque period. The castrati were composed of male singers who were sopranos and altos. Men/boys were castrated during the 17th and 18th century in Europe. The boys would engage in castration as young as eight years old to ensure that their vocal chords would not mature,.This was highly prevalent because during this time, women were not allowed to sing in accordance to the Catholic Church’s strict guidelines back then. Therefore it was necessary for some men to have higher pitched voices to make up for the absences of women. Not every boy or man was castrated,  as they were handpicked based upon their singing capabilities  With a voice like mine I would have been saved from castration back then.  The last known castrato was Alessandro Moreschi. Castration was outlawed in 1870 by the Italian government. Moreschi’s voice was the only captured and recorded voice of castrati in 1902.

Peatle - Ditto what TF said - 

Holy Moly - I cannot imagine someone convincing me to do that just to sing!     

i'd like to be at that garden fete where lennon and mccartney met, that's the where and the why     

Jim Wrote. AS this great topic was about time traveling - here is a hypothetical proposition  I often propose to my students....
I thought it might be interesting to ask here in this thread as well.
Excellent question Jim for me I would like to go to Woodstock back in 1969. I would love to see and experience the atmosphere . Also for all the great artists that played their.

I am glad not to live in the era of shame flutes. Strange the effort people went through to be cruel.

As for the travel question, I think I would like to be among some of the White explorers of the Shenandoah Valley. To see it when it was fresh, when the tribal people living there named it "Daughter of the Stars" because of how the water sparkled and glistened, to cast a fly to big fish who had never seen one. I think that would be glorious.     

Set my time travel coordinates for the creation got a few questions I need answered