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WMargaret Augusta Eliot was an English music teacher and musician. She was a professor of oboe at the Guildhall School of Music and Drama, and her best-known student was George Martin; in 2011, just before her death at age 97, she appeared in the documentary film Produced by George Martin. In the early 1960s she also taught Paul McCartney how to play the recorder, which he later did on The Fool On The Hill.
WThe Flanders Recorder Quartet was a professional recorder group based in Belgium.
WJosé Ángel Hevia Velasco, known professionally as Hevia, is a Spanish bagpiper – specifically, an Asturian gaita player. He commonly performs with his sister, María José, on drums. In 1992 he was awarded first prize for solo bagpipes at the Festival Interceltique de Lorient, Brittany.
WSamuel Linley was the second son of Thomas Linley the elder and Mary Johnson, one of seven musical siblings born to that couple.
WJean-Claude Malgoire was a French oboist and later conductor.
WAdolf Rzepko was a Polish composer, oboist, choral and orchestral conductor, and pianist.