Kivistunud lauluhääl ja šalmei. Ühest hiliskeskaegsest muusikukujutistega aknapiilarifragmendist Tallinna Linnamuuseumi raidkivikogus ning seda täiendavatest artefaktidest

Abstract

This article considers, from the perspective of research into the history of things, a fragment of a late medieval window pillar with depictions of musicians which was found in Tallinn City Museum’s collection of carved stone. The purpose is to introduce one of the hitherto unexplored and little-known carved stone pillars in this collection and to present a selection of artefacts (a stained glass fragment with the image of a musician from the Kalamaja district of Tallinn, a carved stone with the image of a singer from Vene Street in Tallinn, a carved stone with the image of a jester from the Tallinn City Museum and a medieval flute from the Tartu City Museum) and places related to musicians (the musicians’ balcony of the Tallinn Great Guild Hall and the Piperbude stall of Tallinn city musicians) to supplement the information obtained from the pillar. The aim is to give the reader the opportunity to develop a broader picture of the lives of medieval musicians in Tallinn and in Estonia in general. Additionally, the author aims to reveal what the local musicians’ spatial and material world directly related to their work might have looked like