Angel playing psaltery

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Item type:
architectural object
Date of creation:
early 16th century
Technique / Medium:
wood carving

    Item location

  • St. Andrew Church (Buckland Monachorum, Devon, England)
    Wooden figure on roof boss, 4.

Description

Psaltery with 8 strings, played with the fingers, one side curved, the other diagonal; the short straight side on top (usually psalteries are the other way up, with the longer side above).

Instruments [MIMO Code] (notes)

Psaltery [3677]

Bibliographic references

Montagu, Jeremy and Gwen Montagu. Minstrels & angels: Carvings of musicians in medieval English churches (Berkeley, Calif.: Fallen Leaf Press, 1998) 14, plate 32. ISBN 0914913409. RILM 1999-22611.

RIdIM record id

4161