Positive organ

Unknown


Item type:
architectural object
Date of creation:
15th century
Technique / Medium:
wood carving

    Item location

  • St. Mary and St. Andrew Church (Mildenhall, Suffolk, England)
    Wooden relief in a spandrel of the hammerbeam nave roof

Description

Positive organ with 14 pipes and keys, played by a bear, the bellows blown by an indeterminate figure.

Instruments [MIMO Code] (notes)

Positive organ [2268]

Bibliographic references

Montagu, Jeremy and Gwen Montagu. Minstrels & angels: Carvings of musicians in medieval English churches (Berkeley, Calif.: Fallen Leaf Press, 1998) 48, plate 88. ISBN 0914913409. RILM 1999-22611.

RIdIM record id

4224