England: history of the pipe and tabor
the 17th century
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. |
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“… A gang of women, to the music of pipe and tabour, levelled the fences round a recent enclosure and feasted ‘Rural Economy in Yorkshire in 1641, being the farming and account books of Henry Best’, ed. C. B. Robinson, |
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1683 fidler killed, trial account: “it appeared the said Persons were in Maskerade, and that Sutton was a Fidler , who refusing to play Proceedings of the Old Bailey, 12th December, t16831212-11 |
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