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Pfeifer-Gericht (n)

(with) definite article: das
plural: Pfeifer-Gerichte; (with) definite article: die
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official gathering of a guild, or similar organisation, of musicians

Pfeifertag

Literally: (the) Pipers' Court(s); From the title of Johann Henrich Hermann Fries' »Abhandlung vom sogenannten Pfeifer-Gericht...« (Frankfurt am Main, 1752); Probably only a part of the proceedings.

Sources

Spruit, Mr. J.E.: Van vedelaars, trommers en pijpers. Utrecht, 1969, p.86*, 87 [caption] (»Fries).