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Gryphon was one of the most unusual from the folk-rock groupings to emerge from Britain in the 1970s, mostly simply because they didn’t confine their music genre-melding to folk-rock. Spawned on the Royal University of Music, they began creating a name for themselves in folk-rock, but their traditional schooling and …

Graeme Taylor was the 3rd person in the folk trio that evolved in to the folk-rock/prog rock-band Gryphon — he came in initially through his a friendly relationship with co-founder Richard Harvey. Created in 1954, he was the youngest of the initial core group, just 17 if they began. But …

Richard Harvey showed a designated musical proficiency from an early on age, taking on the flute when he was 4 yrs . old. By enough time he graduated from London’s Royal University of Music in 1972, he was playing the recorder flute, krumhorn, along with other middle ages and Renaissance-era …

A classically trained musician and graduate from the Royal University of Music in London, Brian Gulland was proficient around the bassoon and such archaic instruments because the krumhorn, with a particular desire for medieval and Renaissance music (and particularly early chapel music), when he embarked about a profession in rock …