Editing Multi-instrumentalist (section)

==Early music==
The European [[Alta Capella|''Piffari'', ''Stadtpfeifer'' and ''Waits'']] were multi-instrumentalists, who played [[trumpet]], [[sackbut]], [[shawm]], [[cornett]], [[recorder (musical instrument)|recorder]] and string-instruments.<ref>''[[Riemann Musiklexikon]]'' 1967: Art. ''Stadtpfeifer''</ref> Musicians with an education of a ''Stadtpfeifer'' were [[Gottfried Reiche]],<ref name="Musik in Geschichte und Gegenwart">Musik in Geschichte und Gegenwart</ref> [[Johann Joachim Quantz]],<ref name="Musik in Geschichte und Gegenwart"/> Johann Christof Pezel and [[Sigmund Theophil Staden]].<ref name="Musik in Geschichte und Gegenwart"/> Also many European church musicians of the 17th and 18th centuries were multi-instrumentalists, who played several instruments. [[Georg Philipp Telemann]] for example played violin, viola da gamba, recorder, flauto traverso, oboe, shawm, sackbut and double bass.<ref>Telemann: Singen ist das Fundament zur Music in allen Dingen; Ed. Werner Rackwitz; Reclam</ref>