Medieval instrument question

Subject: RE: Medieval instrument question
From: GUEST
Date: 25 May 08 - 08:51 AM

Re: Bare Feet.

Having had some relevant experience, I can say that many of those YS Ren faire Sites have horses - if not actually present at the event, then the paddocks graze them during the off seasons.

Unless you have it in writing from the orhanisers on offical letterhead, then you will most likely somply be refused entry, or even expelled, should you try walking around in bare feet, no matter what "SCA-style BS story" you try on them.

Horses === Tetanus... Public Liability Insurance Clauses...

Rather silly of you planning to NOT take any reasonable footwear, and waste your entry money.

Also I survived the SCA "Bare Feet are not Period" madness... :-)

Subject: RE: Medieval instrument question
From: GUEST
Date: 25 May 08 - 08:58 AM

Oh, BTW,

"English" Renn (Elizabethan, actually!!!) is a lot later than the various "European" Renn periods...

Subject: RE: Medieval instrument question
From: GUEST,Folestroupe
Date: 25 May 08 - 09:01 AM

Oh Dear - Mudcat ate my cookie...

Subject: RE: Medieval instrument question
From: The Fooles Troupe
Date: 25 May 08 - 09:06 AM

Bugger...

:-)

Subject: RE: Medieval instrument question
From: GUEST,Angharat
Date: 04 Jan 13 - 04:22 PM

I don't see that anyone mentioned recorders here, which is odd since:
a) they are period to the renaissance
b) they are easy to learn
c) In the U.S., most school children learn to play one in elementary school, so many already have experience on them.
cheap wooden recorders can be bought at craft stores (like Jo-anns) for a period look - these are modern recorders based on the baroque instrument, not the earlier ren style, but get the job done for cheap if you don't want to invest in an expensive reproduction.

also, Music Makers (http://www.harpkit.com/) sells all kinds of reproduction instruments from the Middle Ages and Renaissance, including plucked psalteries, lutes, etc., and some hybrids catering to re-enacters that are basically guitars in the shape of a lute. I highly recommend them, my psaltery was purchased there and they have GREAT customer service.

I know this post is several years old and the OP is long past caring, but in case others in the future are looking... =)

Subject: RE: Medieval instrument question
From: Jack Campin
Date: 04 Jan 13 - 05:33 PM

Recorders were mentioned earlier.

Nobody makes a cheap one that looks 1500ish. I have a Cranmore reproduction of the Dordrecht recorder from about 1400; he and others make reproductions of the Tartu recorder from the same period. Neither of those would have been played by a monk.

Maybe a handbell?

Subject: RE: Medieval instrument question
From: McGrath of Harlow
Date: 04 Jan 13 - 09:39 PM

Pipe and tabor would seem most obvious. And cheap enough to buy, in England anyway.

But a mendicant monk in Queen Elizabeth's time? About as risky as singing Gospel music in Taliban country.

Subject: RE: Medieval instrument question
From: GUEST,Stim
Date: 04 Jan 13 - 10:40 PM

It is four years after, and I wonder how he fared?(sorry, I couldn't help it) Long ago, we performed for a season at the PA Ren-Faire, performers were paid(not much), and hence screened carefully. You couldn't perform there just because you wanted to. I'd be surprised to know that that had changed.