Double pipes

Unknown


Item type:
architectural object
Date of creation:
ca. 1275
Technique / Medium:
stone carving

    Item location

  • Lincoln Cathedral (Lincolnshire, England)
    Angel Choir, south 9

Description

Angel playing double pipes, perhaps intended as shawms.

Instruments [MIMO Code] (notes)

End-blown flute [3940]
Shawm [4258]

Bibliographic references

Montagu, Jeremy and Gwen Montagu. Minstrels & angels: Carvings of musicians in medieval English churches (Berkeley, Calif.: Fallen Leaf Press, 1998) 3, plate 3. ISBN 0914913409. RILM 1999-22611.

RIdIM record id

4123