minstrel: period music stands

[Janet Parish-Whittaker]

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>Are you perhaps thinking of the illo of Ockeghem?
http://library.ferris.edu/scott/ockeghem.html
Nice documentation for spectacles . . . but a bit grand for a music stand
unless you have a large group.  There should be better copies about.
Vivien
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Thanks for the link-  I'd seen that before, but that wasn't really what I
was thinking about.  I swear that I have a book of recorder music
(currently gone astray) that has a woodcut of an elizabethan quartet
playing off a stand that resembles those wood stands that are so prolific
at early music events.

Still, a week of looking for documentation has me dry!  It seems as if most
ren musicians would leave the music on a table-  neck crick city, but this
is before ergonomics.  Also, apparently many lady musicians would play half
(or less) clothed-  I'm just going off the iconography here!

-David Parish-Whittaker
Solana Beach, CA
www.thegoliards.com