Zur Anzeige muss JavaScript eingeschaltet sein! King Juan I b. But it is not spelled out in this letter or the ensuing receipt whether the flahutes had also been made by him or someone else in his workshop, or perhaps had even been obtained elsewhere. Terms for members of the flute family go back to the early fourteenth century in Aragonese sources. No others dared to ride with them, but everyone was going like this, with trumpets and with drums and with flautes and with cymbals and with many other instruments: I truly tell you that more than three hundred pairs of trumpets were there.
The flauta is mentioned in a Spanish literary source of the mid-fourteenth century. But flahute or flaute was also employed, so, as in all linguistic matters, the terminology was not clear-cut. Therefore, it may again be significant that Juan chose the term flahutes rather than flautas for the instruments he had ordered, and French influence may also be suggested. More significance may be attached to him ordering more than one flahute and at the same time as lutes.
Two similar works of art attributed to the Aragonese painter Pere Serra fl. Only two works are securely documented as by him with dates and , neither work containing duct flutes; all other attributions and dates by art historians are based on stylistic considerations. A similarly posed group, playing the same six instruments, is depicted in an altarpiece painted for the cathedral of Santa Clara, Tortosa actually in nearby El Baix Ebre , between Barcelona and Valencia, around , although recent scholarship suggests it could have been as late as In research on the Middle Ages, nothing is certain; but all things considered, Juan had almost certainly bought a set of recorders.
As a child of a mere sixteen months, Juan he had already been assigned two juglars for his own service who played the cornamusa bagpipe , the favorite instrument of his father, Pedro IV. Their contract introduced the term coblas de ministriles associations of minstrels to the Court. This particular cobla was based on the duo of Thomasi, shawm, and Jacomi, cornamusa, with the other two minstrels presumably adding an accompaniment of other instruments, not necessarily all winds, although their eventual replacements, Johani de Sent Luch Saint-Luc in France and Jacomi Capeta, both played the shawm.
They belittled all the great princes in the surrounding area, judging themselves very superior to everyone; their king was among them, distracting himself by watching and listening to the jongleurs and minstrels. And before going to bed, he would command the young men and maidens to dance and amuse themselves in his presence, except on Fridays. Did Juan play instruments himself, like some monarchs of England?
