The minster is famous for its carvings of medieval musical instruments. There are over 70 such carvings, illustrating instruments that are familiar to modern viewers, but also a variety of unusual medieval instruments. Among the carvings are depictions of bagpipes, flutes, pipes, organs, tambourines, shawms, cymbals, trumpets, lutes, and more.
This was my favourite…
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Fantastic sculptures. Amazing the details that went into even these small works of art!
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There is a lot of restoration work but I guess the same skills require the same concentration!
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I like the way that Mr Bottom Right has just the one cheek distended so much more than the other in order to get a better blow on his trumpet. You will find the same kind of amusing little caricatures in Lincoln, but they haven’t got the orchestra!
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I need to go to Lincoln again. It has been a long time. I went off the city when I had to drive there regularly for work. Dreadful traffic problems!
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These are so beautiful!!
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What fun, Andrew. My favorite was the guy playing two flutes? at once. That would take a lot of wind! 🙂 –Curt
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Men were tough in the Middle Ages!
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I like the first guy with the bell and book looking somewhat serious and I guess there are others with candles in the background in the process of excommunicating someone who had committed a grievous sin (R & A taking photos without paying for a permit?) Possibly, but we did buy some coasters in the cathedral shop.
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Have you managed a slide show?
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I love them all
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There are dozens of them!
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