This orchestra was probably playing for dancing, as no singers are in sight.
In a fifteenth century breviary reposing in the library of Brussels there is a representation of a similar orchestra, and this brings us nearer to the era of Poliziano's "Orfeo." The instruments are harp, lute, dulcimer, hurdy-gurdy, double flute, pommer (an ancient oboe form), bag-pipe, trombone, portable organ, triangle and a straight flute with its accompanying little tambour.

One of the musicians did not play, but beat time as a director.

It is interesting to make a brief comparison between the two representations, for this shows the novelties which entered between the twelfth and the fifteenth centuries.

The lute, the trombone, the pommer and the triangle were new acquisitions.

If now we refer again to the orchestra of 1518 mentioned by Pauluzo we shall seem to have gone backward.