Whistler's chair

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The Stadtpfeiferstuhl in the ballroom of the Old Town Hall in Leipzig

The Pfeiferstuhl (music gallery) is an elevated place where the minstrels played to dance.

The term is made up of Pfeifer (or Pfeiffer) and chair. "Pfeifer" describes someone who plays a pipe ( flute ) professionally . The piper (musicians) were united with the "fiddlers" in so-called musicians' guilds . The component “chair” probably means place, place, but can also mean the official seat or the elevated seat.

It is described that the musicians either played "from the whistler's chair or directly on the dance floor" for the dance.

In some ballrooms, such as that of the old town hall in Leipzig, you can still see the structural peculiarity of a musicians' hall, the "Pfeiferstuhl", on which the musicians (some of the town pipers ) played for festivities.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Piper's chair. In: Jacob Grimm , Wilhelm Grimm (Hrsg.): German dictionary . tape 13 : N, O, P, Q - (VII). S. Hirzel, Leipzig 1889 ( woerterbuchnetz.de ).
  2. ↑ Duden, Volume 5, p. 1981, and Volume 6, p. 2531, Mannheim / Vienna / Zurich 1981.
  3. ↑ Described in a course for the Renaissance traverse flute. ( Memento from January 16, 2006 in the Internet Archive ) (PDF)