England: history of the pipe and tabor
'Regency' players (1790-1829)
1787 satire | ||||
1791Oxford Journal - Saturday 25 June 1791 | ||||
1793 story “…At Charing Cross, a drunken fellow with. a pipe and tabor, had called together the idle and the vagabonds, ‘Life; or, the adventures of William Ramble, Esq. With three frontispieces, designed by Ibbetson, ... and two new and beautiful songs, |
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1796 advertisement Oxford Journal - Saturday 30 July 1796 |
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1797 A property in Hatton Garden, London, was occupied by a taberer. The National Archives MS 11936/407/665843 |
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Nottinghamshire Guardian - Friday 12 February 1886 | ||||
1800Northampton Mercury - Saturday 19 April 1800 | ||||
1800Hereford Journal - Wednesday 01 October 1800 | ||||
1801 engraving |
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1801 copy of a medieval player by Strutt |
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1801 The Queen visited Weeks Mechanical Museum in Tichbourne Street, LondonMorning Chronicle - Tuesday 10 November 1801 | ||||
1804the Green brothers busking |
1804 song accompanied by pipe and tabor in the orchestra Chorus and trio for mixed voices accompanied by chamber orchestra (triangle, piccolo, violins (2),
oboes (2), horns, viola, bassoons, |
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1807 at Sadlers Wells Theatre: J Wyber at Drury Lane Theatre:
‘A biographical dictionary of actors, actresses, musicians, dancers, managers & other stage personnel in London, 1660-1800,’ |
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1812 satire picture on wall in book illustration | 1813 engraving | 1812-1827 cartoon by Rowlandson |
1820 pandean pipes player | |
1807 Martin Platts - "...may have been the "Platt" paid at Drury Lane Theatre on 6 June 1807 £5 15s. 6d . for playing "tabor & pipe." Platts was listed at Drury Lane as a band member, instrument unspecified, on a salary of £2 per week in 1812-13 and 1813-14, and £2 55. in 1815-16 and 1816-17. ..his son, also Martin, … it is perhaps likely that the subject of this entry was the Platts ... at the King's Theatre as a drummer in 1818. " ‘A biographical dictionary of actors, actresses, musicians, dancers, managers & other stage personnel in London, 1660-1800,’ |
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1809 Money money was left in a will to William Richardson: The National Archives Add Mss 2813 |
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“On January 15, 1814, the river Tyne at Newcastle was completely frozen over. For several days, the ice Historical Account of Newcastle-Upon-Tyne Including the Borough of Gateshead. |
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“A pipe and tabor player named Hilton entertained the households of the Dorking area in the early 19th century” ‘A Surrey Garland : customs, traditions and folk songs from the Surrey of yesteryear’, 2004 |
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1816 essay on Ball Room Musicians: Another thing that requires remark, is, that Musicians are seldom payed for their playing, without their Employers Thomas Wilson 1816 Companion to the Ball Room |
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"Early in the nineteenth century the Corporation of Northampton had a band of musicians called the Corporation Waits, 'THE WAITS' by F. A. HADLAND |
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