Still shawm (dulcina)

Unknown


Item type:
architectural object
Date of creation:
second half, 15th century
Technique / Medium:
stone carving

    Item location

  • All Saints Church (Broad Chalke, Wiltshire, England)
    Corbel supporting a nave roof wall post, north 2.

Description

Still shawm (dulcina), cylindrical bore, with the double reed going into the players mouth.

Instruments [MIMO Code] (notes)

Shawm [4258]

Bibliographic references

Montagu, Jeremy and Gwen Montagu. Minstrels & angels: Carvings of musicians in medieval English churches (Berkeley, Calif.: Fallen Leaf Press, 1998) 60, plate 105. ISBN 0914913409. RILM 1999-22611.

RIdIM record id

4241