Portative organ and angel

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 9

Description

Portative organ with 11 pipes carefully scaled, the highest about two-thirds the diameter of the lowest, bass pipe to left (reversed keyboard), a curved strut supporting the pipes.

Instruments [MIMO Code] (notes)

Portative organ [2267]

Bibliographic references

Montagu, Jeremy and Gwen Montagu. Minstrels & angels: Carvings of musicians in medieval English churches (Berkeley, Calif.: Fallen Leaf Press, 1998) 9, plate 22. ISBN 0914913409. RILM 1999-22611.

RIdIM record id

4147