Double-bore reed instrument

Unknown


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

    Item location

  • St. John the Evangelist Church (Elkstone, Gloucestershire, England)
    On the sloping top of a buttress of the tower

Description

Double-bore reed instrument (doppione) with a wind cap, slightly conical with conical bell, rings above the bell and below the cap, played right hand over left, with 2 parallel rows of fingerholes, each hand fingering its own row.

Instruments [MIMO Code] (notes)

Wind instruments [3730]

Image URLs

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Bibliographic references

Montagu, Jeremy and Gwen Montagu. Minstrels & angels: Carvings of musicians in medieval English churches (Berkeley, Calif.: Fallen Leaf Press, 1998) 20, plate 52. ISBN 0914913409. RILM 1999-22611.

RIdIM record id

4190