Europe: Holland / Netherlands

European Iconography: Holland / Netherlands

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instruments

1400-1630 fifteen one-hand flutes from this period have been excavated from wells or cesspits, chiefly in the provinces
of Holland and Zeeland

1375-1450 Delft image 41

1450-1500 Market Hall

15th century

1475-1525

1500-1650 Binnenrotte from Stokviswater to Librijesteeg

1550-1600

before 1631 boxwood pipe, Reimerswaal, Zeeland [hole for a string to hang around neck]

1572 children's instruments

date unknown, pipe found in Garenmarkt, Leiden

players

1362 a drummer 'piped' at a feast

1451-1500 a choir of angels playing music; one with a one-handed flute and a small hand drum.

1480 a hairy man plays a pipe while beating a snare drum

1443 manuscript Bible, Utrecht

1465-1470 Bible Utrecht [page 40]

1465-1470 Bible Utrecht [page 269]

1490 religious painting

Gronigen 'fool' player

1500 painting, Brabant

1510-1530 putto
religious print

1510-1520 Roermond, Limburg

1518 putto, triptych

1500-1550
entertaining at dinner
Netherlands / Germany

1567 inventory made in Vianen, Utrecht; the lord of Brederode possessed a three-hole
bruloftspype (wedding pipe) with a stick to beat the drum.

‘The Pipe and Tabor in the Low Countries’ by Wim Bosmans 2005

1567-1569 'Venus', mythological print -

taborer in gallery

1578 illustration in book of masses -

close-up of taborer

16th century
tapestry page 69

1570 part of a band, Bible

1578 Bible illustration

1582 -1641 leading
a wedding procession

1579 - 1651 "A landsknecht with bare feet and a plumed hat is beating a large cylinder drum ... in the other hand
he is holding a one-handed flute"

1610 band playing at a wedding

1617-1620
wood carving on organ
Sint-Jans kathedraal
's Hertogenbosch

1637 1637 drawing, with bagpipe

1637 drawing, with bagpipe

1653 outside a tavern

c. 1625-1630 engraving, street entertainers

17th century with hurdy gurdy
street entertainers

1675-1702 child taborer with
hurdy gurdy outside an inn

1661 Old Testament, biblical story, Amsterdam

1675-1699 biblcal reference, Northern Netherlands

1660-1687 watercolour, dance of death
based on a drawing by Holbein

18th century
in a boys' band

1703 illustrating a poem

1777 with hurdy gurdy
Middleburg, Zeeland

c.1800 Game of the Goose board game
[ more on the Goose game here]

early 19th century, sketch, The Hague

2011	2025 folk music group

playing for dancing
15th century
16th century 'Dance scene at a court banquet' In a hall, men and women in ancient and medieval costumes sit in a raised loggia at the feast. On the right, on a musicians' balcony, three musicians play on one-hand flute and drum, fiddle or violin and frame harp. On the ground floor in the foreground a dancing couple..."
16th / 17th century 'May and its 'labours'

1541 -

close-up of band

1540-1550 On a village street, peasants (5 couples clearly, others vaguely recognizable) are dancing to the music
of two musicians with bagpipes and an elongated one-handed wind instrument and cylinder drum.