England: 17th century

England: history of the pipe and tabor

the 17^th century

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17^th century
17^th century dancing
17^th century folk customs
17^th century literature
17^th century morris dance
17^th century players
the Stang Ride

In the 17th century neither terminology nor spelling were fixed. So a pipe and tabor player could be, for example,
a minstrel, a musician, a drummer, a pyper, taber and pipe or a fidler.

instruments

1605 Spain

1620 Praetorius, Germany

1636 Mersenne, France

1650 Kircher, Rome, Italy

1650-1700 book illustration England

1686 book illustration London, England

1641

“… A gang of women, to the music of pipe and tabour, levelled the fences round a recent enclosure and feasted
on cakes and ale to celebrate the act before they were caught and sent to jail by an angry magistrate….”

‘Rural Economy in Yorkshire in 1641, being the farming and account books of Henry Best’, ed. C. B. Robinson,
in 'The Great Rebellion. The King's War, 1641-1647 by Wedgwood, C. V. 2001

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England: history of the pipe and tabor

the 17^th century