Let's take it again from the top, lads. Rood screen musician angels from St Mary's, Feltwell, Norfolk #AnimalsInChurchesHour #MusicInChurches
Double jointed and crossed legged, playing the mouth organ/mouth harp at Dorchester Abbey.
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Details from the 1613 monument to Sir John Suckling. St Andrew's, Norwich. #Musicinchurches #AnimalsInChurchesHour
#Stainedglass #Cawston church #Norfolk two angels playing early European lutes one with five strings and one with six being plucked with a quill plectrum. The bird feather quill plectrums have been carefully drawn and are easy to recognise. #AnimalsinChurcheshour #MusicinChurches
Three musicians on #Cornish church bench ends:
Piper, Davidstow
Fiddler (vielle) and Piper, Altarnun
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Video snippet 1 of 3 from my set at #DarkAlchemyV in Bristol on Saturday. I was playing during sunset so these clips become progressively darker!
This is the beginning of 'The Wind and I Must Sing' (aka A Chantar by Beatriz de Dia, c.1180)
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Memorial to Mathew Godwin, master of music at Canterbury and Exeter who died in 1586 aged only 17 or 18. ExeterCathedral #MusicinChurches #memorials
Two more East Anglian bagpipers for #MusicinChurches , this time on the screen at Finchingfield, Essex. It was obviously a popular pastime in the village as there is another one in stone outside.
In royal blue robes, St David closes his eyes as he plucks on harp strings at the back of the north transept at St Cynhaearn's, Ynyscynhaearn, Gwynedd.
This jewel-coloured window was created by Powell & Sons in 1906.
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Musician angel, by W.F. Dixon
Christ Church, Parracombe, #Devon
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2/3: Really appreciative crowd who took it in good humour when we asked them to pretend that about 300 of them were there for us and not #soulofthecitychoir ! #folk #indiefolk #altfolk #livemusic #musicinchurches #crowdselfie
👀 St Peter & St Paul church, #Sustead #Norfolk
Two examples of #medieval #stainedglass windows.
Great for details of medieval 🎶 🎶 instruments.
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The #MusicInChurches has come along just in time for us to promote our next talk, this Sunday, Feb 13 on Music at the Yorkist Court.
Beautiful organ from St Mary Magdalene Church, Hadnall #Shropshire
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Four angel musicians (cymbals, tambourine, harp and bagpipes) from the chancel at St Cleer church #Cornwall
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The baroque church of St Martin-in-the-Fields is one the best places to hear the music of Bach, here played by Baroque specialists the Feinstein Ensemble
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