Flute of Shame

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Ah, the good ol' days. Apparently tomato tossing just wasn't enough.
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Do they have one in Eb?
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Ah yes, the Flute of Shame and the Stool of Repentance. They knew how to deal with poor session etiquette in those days.....
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It's rougher now and more simple. At a session in Tucson they threatened to shoot me.
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It was probably well intentioned, maybe a finger stetching device, which would explain why evenly spaced toneholes were something of a norm, and still are sometimes. It would not surprise me if musicians of the day had their own very simple wooden versions which they would wear at night while they slept for example.

I just wonder who had the say. Would a lord scrutinise musicians with a beady eye when they were playing at a banquet, or was it neighbours who complained of music after dusk on a Tuesday ?

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'He plays on the pillory'. The use of musical instruments for punishment in the Middle Ages and the Early Modern Era

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"As well as this historical fact, there also exists an interpretation that takes the illustrations by Bruegel and Wierix literally. It suggests that these punishment practices originally date back to a more ancient use of real instruments in a penal system that was applied and understood as a 'healing punishment' (poena medicinalis) to banish the ill and re-establish the good in the delinquent, the community and the world as a whole due to musical sounds."
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jim stone wrote: Wed Jan 26, 2022 9:15 am It's rougher now and more simple. At a session in Tucson they threatened to shoot me.
Well that is the Wild West after all.
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Loren wrote: Wed Jan 26, 2022 8:09 pm
jim stone wrote: Wed Jan 26, 2022 9:15 am It's rougher now and more simple. At a session in Tucson they threatened to shoot me.
Well that is the Wild West after all.
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Y'all crack me up.
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