The minstrel gallery of Exeter Cathedral (Fig. 38) dates from the fourteenth century. The front is divided into twelve niches, each of which contains a winged figure or an angel playing on an instrument of music. There is a cast also of this famous sculpture at South Kensington. The instruments are so much dilapidated that some of them cannot be clearly recognised; but, as far as may be ascertained, they appear to be as follows:――(1) The _lute_ or possibly _cittern_; (2) the _bagpipe_; (3) the _clarion_ or the _shalm_; (4) the _rebec_; (5) the _psaltery_ or the _harp_; (6) the _jew’s harp_ (?); (7) the _sackbut_ or the _clarion_; (8) the _regals_; (9) the _gittern_, a small guitar strung with catgut; (10) the _shalm_ (?); (11) the _timbrel_, resembling our present tambourine, with a double row of gingles; (12) _cymbals_. Most of these instruments have been already noticed in the preceding pages. The _shalm_, or _shawm_, was a pipe with a reed in the mouth-hole. The _wait_ was an English wind instrument of the same construction. If it differed in any respect from the _shalm_, the difference consisted probably in the size only. The _wait_ obtained its name from being used principally by watchmen, or _waights_, to proclaim the time of night. Such were the poor ancestors of our fine oboe and clarinet. [Illustration: FIG 38.――MINSTREL GALLERY, Exeter Cathedral. 14th century. From a plaster cast in the Victoria and Albert Museum.] X. POST-MEDIÆVAL INSTRUMENTS. Attention must now be drawn to some instruments which originated during the Middle Ages, but which attained their highest popularity at a somewhat later period.