The youthful Johann Sebastian Bach (1605 - 1750)

Anonymous portrait at the Erfurt Museum


 

The Dunmow Flitch

See Notes & Queries for further details.


 

Three German Stadtpfeifers

Gottfried Reiche (1667-1734)

Georg Abraham Schneider (1770-1839)

Johann Schop (1590-1664)

See the History section for more information.

Les stadtpfeiffers de Germersheim

A drawing entitled "Les stadtpfeiffers de Germersheim" from a web page which has now expired, playing soprano and alto shawms, cornetto and curtal, which suggests that such a group must exist or must have existed recently. Germersheim is in the Rhineland Palatinate, very close to the French border, so that may explain why the image is on a French site.
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Carfax Conduit, Oxford

See Oxford in the history section for further details

Geordy Sime, Piper of Dalkeith

See Notes & Queries for details of him and other bagpipeing Waits

Doncaster Mansion House Ballroom

See Photos page for present-day pictures.
See also Galleries page for comments.

Musicians at a Florentine Wedding

(mid-fifteenth century)

King Henry VIII's Wind Band

in the musicians' gallery at Hampton Court, by Holbein

De pijpers op de Sint-Kruispoort te Brugge.

A panel from a carved wooden lectern in the Bieck Museum, Poland.

Gawthorpe Hall

The 17th century musicians' gallery in the dining room of Gawthorpe Hall, Lancashire.

17th Century Waits

Waits playing three hautboys and a sackbut, from a drawing in London & Westminster Prints and Drawings Volume II, Pepys Library, Magdalen College, Cambridge.

"A typical 18th c. waits band

of 3 oboes & 2 bassoons, just as in York"

(see Notes & Queries)

Another 18th century band

"I think it's very important, though perhaps not of waits. I lost the source. I've removed some horn players to use the picture elsewhere. Perhaps we could ask website folk to try and find the original or a properly labelled copy in a book." James Merryweather.

STOP PRESS! See Notes & Queries for the answer to James' prayer!

Gabriel Schütz (1633-1710)

stadtpfeiffer of Nuremberg, apparently described by Johann Mattheson in Das neu-eröffnete Orchestre (Hamburg, 1713) as: "one of the greatest masters of his time in the Holy Roman Empire".

Johan Ambrosius Bach

Father of J S Bach. See Notes & Queries and The Bach Family

Painting of Leicester Town Waits

by H R Steer, RI. Original in Leicester City Museum.
Not a bad Victorian representation of Renaissance Waits, although the instruments they are playing - oboe, vox humana (tenor or alto oboe) or some sort of hybrid recorder, and some sort of 'cello or viol, worn like a left-handed guitar, are more late 18th - early 19th century.

Bartholomew Johnston, Scarborough wait 1710 - 1814

Two portraits, one when he must be in his 70s and another post 100 years.
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