Duct flute

Unknown


Item type:
architectural object
Date of creation:
ca. 1451
Technique / Medium:
stone

    Item location

  • St. John the Baptist Church (Stamford, Lincolnshire, England)
    Corbel supporting a wall post of the nave roof.

Description

Duct flute with a very clear mouth, played perhaps by a shepherd (the stick in his left hand might be a crook) with a pellet bell tied to the end of each fork of his beard.

Instruments [MIMO Code] (notes)

Duct flute [3932]
Bell [2381]

Bibliographic references

Montagu, Jeremy and Gwen Montagu. Minstrels & angels: Carvings of musicians in medieval English churches (Berkeley, Calif.: Fallen Leaf Press, 1998) 61, plate 106. ISBN 0914913409. RILM 1999-22611.

RIdIM record id

4242