ABSTRACT
A similar effect was sought during Elizabeth's entry to Kenilworth Castle in 1575. Both Robert Langham and George Gascoigne refer to the action, its creation and effect. Langham records: he ['a porter'] cauzd hiz Trumpetoourz that stood vppon the wall of the gate thear, too soound vp a tune of welcum: which, besyde the nob! noyz, was so mooch the more pleazaunt too behold, becauz theez Trumpetoourz beeing six in number, wear euery one an eight foot hye, in due proportion of parson besyde, all in long garments of sylk sutable, each with hiz syluery Trumpet of a fiue foot long, foormed Taperwyse, and straight from the vpper part vntoo the neather eend: whear the Diameter waz a r6. ynchez ouer and yet so tempered by art, that being very eazy too the blast, they cast foorth no greater noyz nor a more unpleazaunt soound for time and tune, then any oother common Trumpet bee it neuer so artificially foormed. Theese armonious blasterz, from the foreside of the gate at her highnes entrauns whear they began: walking vpon the wallz, vntoo the inner: had this musik mainteined from them very delectably while her highness all along this tilryard rode vnto the inner gate next the base coourt of the Castl.8
