Three disguised figures with wind instruments

Unknown (Swiss)

Item type:

decorative art

Date of creation:

ca. 1450

Technique / Medium:

Stove tile of textured clay, glazed pottery

Place of creation:

Basel (Schweiz)

Description

On both sides two men dressed as savages blowing shawms of different sizes, and, in the middle, a “bear-dressed” man blowing S-trumpet (alta capella).

Instruments [MIMO Code] (notes)

Shawm [4258]
Trumpet [4446] (S-shaped)

RIdIM images

Bibliographic references

Biber, Walter. Vom Bläserensemble zum Bläserorchester (Luzern: Maihof Verlag, 1995) 15.

Meyer, Werner. Hirsebrei und Hellebarde: Auf den Spuren des mittelalterlichen Lebens in der Schweiz (Olten: Walter, 1985).

Notes

Research Project Hochschule Luzern-Musik, Switzerland (Antonio Baldassarre, Brigitte Bachmann-Geiser, Dorothea Baumann)

RIdIM record id

4450