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 18th century monkey orchestra, France |
 18th century, France |
 modern harpsicord painting |
 the harpsicord |
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1613
"After mentioning the various stringed instruments he continues:
"So there were some again, in this their learned strife,
Loud instruments that loved, the Cornet and the Fife,
The Hoboy, Sackhut deep, Recorder, and the Flute,
Even from the shrillest Shawn unto the Cornemute.
Some blow the Bagpipe up, that plays the country round
The Tabor and the Pipe some take delight to sound."
Polyolbion and The harmony of the church, Michael Drayton in the Story of the Bagpipe |
 1702 Bible drawing |
 18th century pipe |
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1710. April 1,Tatler. No. 153
Addison touches lightly on faults that spoil the pleasures of social intercourse:
“I look upon myself, during the course of many years, to have resembled a tabor and pipe. I have since very much endeavoured at the sweetness, of the lute but in spite of all my resolutions, I must confess with great confusion, that I find myself daily degenerating into a bagpipe; whether it be the effect of my old age, or of the company I keep, I know not.” |
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1720
" The second time, Fryer Bungy and he went to sleepe, and Miles alone to watch the brazen head; Miles, to keepe him from sleeping, got a tabor and pipe, and being merry disposed, sung this song to a Northern tune "
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1720’s - 'Dixton Harvesters', a painting
in Cheltenham Art Gallery showing how the harvest was gathered. The pipe and tabor player accompanied all the different activities.
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The painting has poor lighting and is high up on the wall so difficult to photograph [frances] ) |
 part of the painting |
 dancing |
 scything |
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 gathering hay |
 leading a line of workers |
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leading morris men
out of the picture |
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1724, London
“Masters of various instruments flock here,
The Scottish pipe and British harp appear;
Lutes and guitars do form a beauteous line,
Whilst dulcimers with pipe and tabor join;”
‘The Session of Musicians,
In Imitation of the Session of the Poets.’ |
 1742 Vaucason's mechanical figures were on display in London. One
is a pipe and tabor player. |
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 1748-1756 print |
 copy |
 mid 18th century
emboidered cushion |
 Painting by Lancret |
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1752 - died: Mr. Harwood, the celebrated Performer on the Tabor and Pipe at Covent-Garden Theatre.
Kentish Weekly Post or Canterbury Journal Wed 06 May 1752 |
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A Biographical Dictionary of Actors, Actresses, Musicians, Dancers, Managers ...
By Philip H. Highfill, Kalman A. Burnim, Edward A. Langhans |
1771 advertisement in the Derby Mercury - Friday 15 March 1771  |
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1766 Goldsmith, 'The Vicar of Wakefield'
"Being apprized on our approach,
the whole neighborhood came out to meet their minister,
drest in their finest cloaths, and preceded by a pipe and tabor:..." |
1766 'Cymon' A Dramatic Romance as it is Performed at the Theatre Royal, Drury Lane.
The pipe and tabor were used as a simile for the romantic rural idyll. |
 1759-1768 vase
Bowes Museum |
 1770-1780 plate |
 vase V&A Museum |
 18th century? painting |
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1770
"I have drunk with
Piping Pebworth, Dancing Marston,
Haunted Hillborough, Hungry Grafton..." |
25 years later Samuel Ireland wrote:
" the people of Pebworth are still famed for their skill on the pipe and tabor; Hillborough is now called Haunted Hillborough; and Grafton is notorious for the poverty of its soil".
Samuel Ireland, Picturesque Views on the Upper or Warwickshire
Avon. 1795, p. 233 |
 1776 |
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Between November 1774 and November 1775, the pipe and tabor was hired by Theatre Royal Drury Lane for 127 nights for the plays they put on in the theatre.
In a
newspaper review
in September 1775 readers were told:
“The music was well composed, and among other instruments were introduced the pipe and tabor” |
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 Bronze statuette |
 Bronze statuette, side |
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 Newcastle Courant - Saturday 28 November 1772 |
John Randall was born 1764 in New Haven, Conn. North America, died in Australia.
John Randall, a Negro laborer, was tried at Manchester on 14 April 1785 for stealing a watch chain on the docks at Liverpool. Sent to the Ceres hulk in 1786,aged 21 sentenced to 7 years transportation.
He was a crack shot. He was made an official game keeper by governor Phillip and killed the first Emu seen by Europeans. In June 1799 Randall was accused of theft of plates and glasses from the governor, but was forgiven. Randall was about 6 feet and well built. He played the flute and tambour. |
1793
Extracts of the Journals and Correspondence of Miss Berry From the Year 1783 to 1852 |
1796 - A small elegant Masquerade Ball was given at Orchardley House, near Frome...The principal characters included ” a Dancing Bear lead by his Keeper playing the pipe and tabor...” Ipswich Journal - Saturday 24 December 1796
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1796 newspaper advertisement:  Oxford Journal - Saturday 30 July 1796 |
| 1799 poem by Anna Seward depicting an idyllic pastoral scene:
............................call thine ear
To the gay viol dinning in the dale,
With tabor loud, and bag-pipe's rustic drone
To merry Shearer's dance;
Original Sonnets on Various Subjects and Odes Paraphrased from Horace. London |
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for more on the 18th century see:
morris dance
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early 18thc Wentworth Castle, ceiling painting 
on scrimshaw 
