Timpani - Defilada 2018

@ Bydgoska Chorągiew Husarska

Salve omnes,
again I am bringing your attention to the Polish Armed Forces Day parade - 15th August 2018 - in Warsaw, where spectators could see Old Poland military men reconstructed.
Among the winged hussars' reenactors there was the musician group - seen already in this Marek Kalisinski's photo:

Marek Kalisinski @ winged hussar musicians

Mosci Marek Holak from Bydgoszcz, Poland reconstructed the timpanist or the musician on horseback playing the timpani. There were also trumpeters. For the first time in reenactment the winged hussar banner had a prescribed music element.


  in Marek Kalisinski's photo

winged Hussar pauker or timpanist

In Joanna Wolska photo

winged hussar timpanist and trumpeter behind him

It was perhaps for the first time since 1939 that Polish cavalry was seen marching  accompanied by a timpanist.
Chapeau bas, mosci Marku!
                                                      ! vivat Hussaria!
Valete

Musicians - a sketch in progress

Salve,
 in this post I brought  into this blog  the prints of de Bruyn - particularly the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth horsemen. In this sketch, nota bene I am using my older sketch just to play with the idea, well, here I am going for the horsemen-musicians from XVII century. There is still lots of work to be done here.
     Apparently the trumpeters or buglers  and timpani (horse drummers) (in Polish cavalry we called them ''paukers'') were part of every winged hussar cavalry banner,  or the period iconography and surviving documents lead us to believe such was the situation.

     They were paid and were armed, since they could be fighting too, and they were busy on the battlefield playing out their part in the military operations and fighting. From the information provided in this regimental roll (record of enlistment from 1659-61)  you can see that the Western style cavalry  or Foreign 'Autorament'/Contingent (reitars) regiments  in Polish armies of XVII century a  ''pauker'' was part of the regiment's headquarters while trumpeters were attached to each company, so the regimental drummer in this particular example gets 2 as much salary as each of the companies' trumpeters.
I intend to draw some reitar musicians too, some day soon.

 Perhaps the most colorful trumpeters, due to the color of their uniforms and also horses and their tack, can be seen during the Napoleonic period.
                                                      


Kircholm battle

Klushino battle

Beresteczko battle

Chocim (Khotyn) battle

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Abraham de Bruyn's western European lancers

Salve,
 I would like to begin by wishing good luck to my friends and family on the East Coast of the US, as the hurricane Sandy  landed there last night.

Going back to Abraham de Bruyn and his prints, today a set showing armoured lancers of the Western Europe:
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 Tournament harness

.. another fully armoured lancer

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 Italian lancer

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.. French lancer

.. Netherlands' (Low Countries) lancer

..German standard bearer

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Interestingly de Bruyn shows no Spanish heavy lancer but only two bullfighting horsemen  riding à 'la gineta' style and a herreruelo or a pistol-and-arquebus (wheel-lock) armed cavalryman. Also he shows a Belgian armoured commander of cavalry that fought for the Spanish in the war in Flanders.
 a la gineta

Spanish herreruelo

eques Belga

and finally a drummer, as no cavalry could have been without music

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