Bagpipe

Unknown


Item type:
architectural object
Date of creation:
ca. 1335
Technique / Medium:
stone carving

    Item location

  • St. John the Evangelist Minster (Beverley, Yorkshire, England)
    On the wall behind the reredos, reredos 1

Description

Bagpipe made of a whole pig skin, with a double chanter and single drone, the player interlocking his fingers so that a scale is played by lifting first one ring finger, then the other, then the two middle fingers in succession, and then the two forefingers, fingering across both pipes in parallel.

Instruments [MIMO Code] (notes)

Bagpipe [3746]

Bibliographic references

Montagu, Jeremy and Gwen Montagu. Minstrels & angels: Carvings of musicians in medieval English churches (Berkeley, Calif.: Fallen Leaf Press, 1998) 21, plate 54. ISBN 0914913409. RILM 1999-22611.

RIdIM record id

4191