Hunting Horn Player
Side view of hook
Lute Player
Recorder Player 1
Recorder Player 2
Viola da Gamba 1
Viola da Gamba 2
Violinist

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Hunting Horn

Johann Elias Ridinger, 18th century

(3 3/4" x 2 3/4")

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Hunting Horn, side view

You can see the curve of the graceful, 2 inch  "S" hook here

All the hooks on this page have similar side views, 

though the hook may be placed at slightly different heights.

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Lute Player  from Allegory of the moon

by Hendrik Goltzius (1558 - 1617)

(3 3/4" x 2 ")

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Recorder Player 1

Peter Prelleur, 1731

(3 3/4" x 2 1/4")

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Recorder Player 2 

( 3 3/4" x 2 1/2")

I realize that the hands are in the wrong position for a recorder, 

but I was trying to be faithful to the engraving.  

I later learned that in the Renaissance recorders were made 

to be played with either hand in the upper or lower positions.  

The unused pinky finger holes for the lower hand could be

 filled by wax when they were not needed. 

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Viola da Gamba 1, 

Christopher  Simpson

( 3 3/4" x 2 1/4")

His right hand is concealed behind the hook.

Find out more about the Viola da Gamba Society 

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Viola da Gamba 2

Johann Christoph Weigel 1722

Find out more about the Viola da Gamba Society 

( 3 1/2" x 2 3/4")

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Violinist from Children Making Music, 1629

by Jan Miense Molenaer

( 3 1/2" x 2")

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