Portative organ

Unknown


Item type:
architectural object
Date of creation:
late 14th century
Technique / Medium:
stone carving

    Item location

  • St. Michael and All Angels Church (Alkerton, Oxfordshire, England)
    External frieze

Description

Portative organ with two rows of well-scaled pipes, 9 in the back row and 12 in the front, shown from above so that the reversed keyboard may be seen.

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) 48, plate 87. ISBN 0914913409. RILM 1999-22611.

RIdIM record id

4223