Conicle double-bore reed instrument

Unknown


Item type:
architectural object
Date of creation:
ca. 1400
Technique / Medium:
stone carving

    Item location

  • St. Mary Magdalene Church (Elmstone Hardwicke, Gloucestershire, England)
    Label stop on the molding over tower window

Description

Double-bore reed instrument (doppione) but without a wind cap, clearly conical, the wide bell carved open, played right hand over left, each hand fingering its own bore.

Instruments [MIMO Code] (notes)

Wind instruments [3730]

Bibliographic references

Montagu, Jeremy and Gwen Montagu. Minstrels & angels: Carvings of musicians in medieval English churches (Berkeley, Calif.: Fallen Leaf Press, 1998) 20, plate 53. ISBN 0914913409. RILM 1999-22611.

RIdIM record id

4189