1854 "WAITS. The Corporation of Northampton, within the remembrance of my informant, had a band of musicians
called the corporation waits, who used to meet the judges at the entrance into the town at the time of the assizes.
They were four in number, attired in long black gowns, two playing on violins, one on the hautboy, and the other
on a whip and dub, or tabor and pipe."

"Glossary of Northamptonshire Words and Phrases" by Anne Elizabeth Baker (1854), vol II page 388

Also see 'terminology' for other dictionaries.

1869 celebration: ‘Pipes and tabors sound your best’ Essex Times - Wednesday 11 August 1869

1840 Fete champetre at Percy Cross given by Lady Ravensworth:
‘at the latter place there was erected a triumphal arch, towering to the height of two hundred feet,
composed of rare exotics and native plants, with a prominent scroll with " Victoria and Albert.
  A rude band — the village pipe and tabor — gave additional hilarity to the festival.’
Morning Post - Saturday 27 June 1840

Worcester Herald - Saturday 29 August 1857 reveiwed a concert in which:
...”tabor pipe, bagpipes and such-like instruments all in their turn being called into requisition:...”

1858 Morning Advertiser - Friday 02 July 1858 reviewed a play:

“The pipe and tabor is cleverly introduced for the chorus of peasants outside...”

Concert in Worcester College hall reviewed in 1860: Worcester Herald - Saturday 15 September 1860

1866 Aa concert given in aid of the University College Hospital,
Gower Street, London. ‘The programme was remarkable for its novelty...Morning Advertiser - Wednesday 14 February 1866

1886 concert in London Sporting Life - Saturday 13 March 1886

In a novel in 1836
"soon after the sound of pipe and tabor came from the servant’s hall"

Waldie's select circulating library, Volume 7

1835

" Music, of all arts, gives the most universal pleasure, and pleases longest and oftenest. 
Infants are charmed with the melody of sounds, and old age is animated by enlivening notes. 
... the English peasant delights in his pipe and tabor;"

THAUMATURGIA,OR ELUCIDATIONS OF THE MARVELLOUS BY AN OXONIAN

“The pipe and tabor is cleverly introduced for the chorus of peasants outside...”

Morning Advertiser - Friday 02 July 1858

"Whole houses are inhabited by these wretched boys, who sleep eight and nine in a bed; ...
The following are the charges made by the proprietors upon the juvenile crew:...For a dog
and monkey (the latter may be frequently seen in the street riding on the dog's back), 3s. per day.
For dancing dogs, four in number, including dresses, spinning-wheel, pipe and tabor, &c. 5s. per day...
Some of these boys, by their artlessness of manner and gesticulations, it is said, obtain six
or seven schillings a day, and some more."
Sunday, November 13, 1831 Bell's Weekly Messenger

1849

“The street dances are always performed on a small piece of board (about three feet long and two feet wide),
placed in the middle of the road... Included in the twelve London street-dancers are six children; these are girls
from five to fifteen years of age. The fathers of these girls play the drum and pipes..."

1849-50 ‘The Morning Chronicle : Labour and Poor’ Henry Mayhew

1867 "At the fair ... and the lads and lasses footing it to the fife and tabor, and the people chattering in groups"

'Griffith Gaunt; or, Jealousy' by Charles Reade

1868 Race meeting Chester
“Fellows were there with monkeys and music; the pipe and tabor and the hurdy gurdy. 
Jugglers and montebanks with apes and bears.”

Liverpool Weekly Courier - Saturday 09 May 1868

1892 "In summer they have music before they go to bed. We are in a city that has always been fond of music.
The noise of crowd and pipe, tabor and cithern, is now silent in the streets. Rich men kept their own musicians."

1892 London "In the following chapters it has been my endeavor to present pictures
of the City of London..... showing the streets, the buildings, and the citizens at work
and at play....  the cheerful sound of pipe and tabor; the stage with its tumblers and its rope-dancers;.....

It is an evening in May. What means this procession? Here comes a sturdy rogue marching along valiantly,
blowing pipe and beating tabor. After him, a rabble rout of lads and young men, wearing flowers in their
caps, and bearing branches and singing lustily .... Presently the evening falls.  The noise of crowd and pipe,
tabor and cithern, is now silent in the streets...

Everywhere singing—everywhere joy and happiness. In the streets the very prentices and their
sweethearts danced, to the pipe and tabor, those figures called the Brawl and the Canary,
and better dancing, with greater spirit and more fidelity to the steps, had I never before seen."

Walter Besant 

1914 'GOETHE'S MOTHER'

"Where are the echoes that bore the strains
Each to his nearest neighbour;
And all the valleys and all the plains
Where all the nymphs and their love-sick swains
Made merry to pipe and tabor?

Where are they gone? "

The Bed-Book of Happiness by Harold Begbie (1871-1929)

"leafless trees, has a music of its own — a music that sets the spirit 
within us dancing, as surely as the sound of pipe and tabor."

1847 ‘TALE OF THE TIMES’, GEORGE SOANE

1859The Atlas - Saturday 21 May

1895 ‘A Christmas Baedeker for London’ - a commentry on shopping Pall Mall Gazette - Monday 25 November 1895

enjoyment:

1843 May ‘when daylight lingers over garden seats and grassy banks, as in reluctance to o'erveil
the happy group, and stop the merry dance unwont to stay the pipe and tabor, bag-up the capering
fiddle, or part the sighing swain from doting maiden.
Welcome, welcome, smiling May...’
Illustrated London Life - Sunday 07 May 1843

1861 Sheffield Daily Telegraph - Tuesday 31 December 1861

1899 The Conference of the Incorporated Society of Musicians talk entitled "The Folk Music of the West of England."

“Mr. Baring-Gould related how he had, with the assistance of collaborators, collected the folk airs
of Devon and Cornwall— in cottages and taverns, and among miners, farmers, stone-breakers, hedgers,
and others. The words to many of the songs were such balderdash that they had in some cases to re-write
them; but as to the melodies, they took no liberties with them.   Some of the airs were certainly ancient
minstrel melodies that demanded the pipe and tabor as accompaniment.”

London Evening Standard - Friday 06 January 1899

Review: A musical instrument exhibition at the Royal Aquarium included a pipe and tabor.
Sporting Life - Friday 14 December 1894

Music and musicians of the 18th century, a lecture by  Mr F Cunningham Woods, showed a pipe and tabor  
otherwise known as ‘ whittle and dub’  formerly belonging to an inhabitant of Hailey.
Oxfordshire Weekly News - Wednesday 14 August 1895