Ram and monkey with panpipe and oval fiddle

Unknown


Item type:
architectural object
Date of creation:
ca. 1245
Technique / Medium:
stone carving

    Item location

  • Bristol Cathedral (Somerset, England)
    Spandrel in the arcade of the Elder Lady Chapel

Description

Oval fiddle, with three pegs in a round peg-disc and C-holes, played on the shoulder with a long heavy bow, by a ram; a monkey plays a romanesque type panpipe.

Instruments [MIMO Code] (notes)

Fiddle [3142]
Panpipe [4024]

Bibliographic references

Montagu, Jeremy and Gwen Montagu. Minstrels & angels: Carvings of musicians in medieval English churches (Berkeley, Calif.: Fallen Leaf Press, 1998) 54, plate 91. ISBN 0914913409. RILM 1999-22611.

RIdIM record id

4227