Pipe and tabor

Unknown


Item type:
architectural object
Date of creation:
ca. 1500
Technique / Medium:
wood carving

    Item location

  • St. Wendreda Church (March, Cambridgeshire, England)
    At base of roof wall-post, north 7

Description

Angel playing pipe and tabor, a long pipe with the end hollowed and a small tabor with N-bracing through the flesh hoops, suspended from a strap on the left wrist, large beater with a small knob on the end.

Instruments [MIMO Code] (notes)

Tabor pipe [6689]
Cylindrical drum [2532]

Bibliographic references

Montagu, Jeremy and Gwen Montagu. Minstrels & angels: Carvings of musicians in medieval English churches (Berkeley, Calif.: Fallen Leaf Press, 1998) 9, plate 20. ISBN 0914913409. RILM 1999-22611.

RIdIM record id

4142