One of my hobbies is making photographs of church windows, especially church windows that have musicians or musical instruments on them. Mostly these are King David playing the harp, or Saint Caecilia, the patron saint of music. Often too there are angels playing harps or trumpets. And sometimes there is a violin player or bagpipe player. Here is a small selection of my collection.

The angel with harp in the chapel of St. Anna Aaalmoeshof in Leiden, Netherlands, is quite a special one. It is the oldest surviving church window in The Netherlands, from the late 1400s, and it survived the Iconoclasts of 1566 undamaged. Unfortunately it didn't survive the 1807 explosion of the gunpowder ship in Leiden without damage, as part of the ship's mast came hurtling through the chapel's windows. Originally there were 12 painted windows, now there are a mere three remaining, that were reconstructed with lead strips from the shattered heap of glass splinters.