associated pipes

one-handed pipe

It is not always obvious which type of pipe is being played in some of the iconography.

 

1408 France 1410-1414 Paris, France, Mercury playing double pipes
1410-20 player and Mercury 1418 Paris, France
1430 pipe and hobby-horse The Hague, Netherlands 1430-1435 shepherd Paris, France 1440 shepherd playing for dancing, Belgium 1450 shepherd playing for dancing, Belgium         1470-80 Tarot card 'Poetry' 1511 female player in a prayer book, France
1544-1552 Basel, Switzerland	15th century, France	15th century, Mercury Flanders, Belgium
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Dance of Death Images
15th century Augsburger, Bavaria, Germany
1448-53 Bern Cathedral, Switzerland
The Emperor Wellcome Library, London  1617 The Young man 1825-1851 The Young Man
Salzbergen, Germany 1830 Martinskapelle (chapel of Saint Martin), Elbigenalp, Tyrol, Austria

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