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.
