Pipe and tabor

Unknown


Item type:
architectural object
Date of creation:
ca. 1240
Technique / Medium:
wood

    Item location

  • Exeter Cathedral (Devon, England)
    Misericord, found in the choir

Description

The earliest known carving of a pipe and tabor, with a large tabor and a short pipe fingered in the middle.

Instruments [MIMO Code] (notes)

Tabor pipe [6689]
Cylindrical drum [2532]

Image URLs

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Bibliographic references

Montagu, Jeremy and Gwen Montagu. Minstrels & angels: Carvings of musicians in medieval English churches (Berkeley, Calif.: Fallen Leaf Press, 1998) 63, plate 109. ISBN 0914913409. RILM 1999-22611.

RIdIM record id

4245