[Sca-cooks] Music at Feasts

[Susan Fox-Davis]

> > I'm wondering if there was a standard fanfare played when a crane or heron
> > was presented.
> >
> > Cindy
> >
>
> Just a thought but maybe the horn blast/fanfare mimicked the call of the
> bird.  A horn would be heard better than a herald announcing the dish, what
> with all the noise in the hall.
>
> Annan

This gives rise to a whole new prank, sounding the call of each creature in its
living form before each meat dish is presented to the diners.  MOO before the
beef, OINK for the pork, etc.  I need to get one of those silly duck-call
noisemakers before Twelfth Night.  Hehehe!

Selene Colfox