Two drummers

Unknown


Item type:
architectural object
Date of creation:
ca. 1325
Technique / Medium:
stone carving

    Item location

  • St. John the Evangelist Minster (Beverley, Yorkshire, England)
    Label stops on the triforium arcading below nave 8

Description

Right: small drum held in one hand and struck with a beater in the other; Left: a pair of small nakers.

Instruments [MIMO Code] (notes)

Cylindrical drum [2532]
Nakers [2893]

Bibliographic references

Montagu, Jeremy and Gwen Montagu. Minstrels & angels: Carvings of musicians in medieval English churches (Berkeley, Calif.: Fallen Leaf Press, 1998) 66, plate 111. ISBN 0914913409. RILM 1999-22611.

RIdIM record id

4247