This method of recruiting players young, then, could account for why there are apparently so many family links within the king's minstrels and trumpeters.
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The commission is also part of the documentation that proves that minstrels and trumpeters stayed a long time in the king's service.
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Overall, then, it seems that there were at least nine minstrels and seven trumpeters as part of the king's household during the early 1460s.
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Large frugivores (trumpeters and currasows) were also absent from the censuses.
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There is no instance among the paired names in which one was a minstrel and the other atrumpeter.
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My observations suggest that trumpeters may subsequently disperse some of the seeds contained in these fallen figs.
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We should not expect this, unless the trumpeters were to have more expensive liveries than the rest of the minstrels.
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In the stripedtrumpeterand red drum, the increase in sensitivity was correlated with the appearance of double cones.
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This not only supports the strong delineation already noted between the two roles, but also suggests that being a royal minstrel ortrumpeterran in families.
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The payrolls include payments to the additional one or two trumpeters accompanying other army captains (sixteen trumpeters altogether in the 1514 payroll), but there is no list of singers.
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Soldiers, among whom are four trumpeters and two drummers, bring in the spoils from the battle, then mime a combat as a kind of charm to ward off future wars.
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It is noticeable that the lists of minstrels and trumpeters contain several pairs with the same surname who might conceivably have been brothers, or fathers and sons.
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David is atrumpeter, has published educational music and research articles, and teaches for a local authority music service.
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This small variation in numbers seems quite possible, and more likely than that the numbers should have fallen to only thirteen (with only three trumpeters) in 1465.
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I have a brother-in-law who is a jazztrumpeter.
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