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The pipe and tabor were known throughout Victorian times. Many newspapers had
literature or poetry columns. Sometimes advertisements were placed in newspapers
advertising amusements to take place locally.
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1827 Opera
  Star (London) - Wednesday 03 January 1827
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1832 poem
 Clonmel Herald - Saturday 17 November 1832
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1840 story ‘The Recollections of a Hackney Coach’  The Odd Fellow - Saturday 28 March 1840 |
1841 satire in a newspaper commentry:  |
1841 ‘The Pope’s Promise’ a story set in Italy:  The Odd Fellow - Saturday 30 January 1841 |
1841 ‘Ode for April’ Worcester Journal - Thursday 08 April 1841 |
1841 ‘All Right to the tune of Packington Pound’ Bucks Herald - Saturday 21 August 1841 |
1841 ‘The Comic Annual for 1842’ by T Hood Taunton Courier, and Western Advertiser - Wednesday 24 November 1841 |
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1842 'The Pied Piper of Hamelin'
by Robert Browning in 'Dramatic Lyrics'
XIV The place of the children's last retreat,
They called it the Pied Piper's Street,
Where any one playing on pipe or tabor
Was sure for the future to lose his labor. |
1840's illustrating Shakespeare  The Tempest, Ariel |
1843 story ‘Adolphe and Annette or a Tale of Langudoc’  Lloyd's Companion to the Penny Sunday Times and Peoples' Police Gazette - Sunday 06 August 1843 |
1843 poem:  Derbyshire Courier - Saturday 14 October 1843 |
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1843 story
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1843 Play at Haymarket Theatre, London:
‘The pipe and tabor summon to
the amusements all...’
Pictorial Times - Saturday 26 August 1843
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1845 ‘Rodenhurst or the Church and the Manor’ Morning Chronicle - Monday 06 January 1845 |
1846 poem ‘Solution of the Enigma‘ Western Times - Saturday 14 November 1846 |
1847 'Stanzas'  Lloyd's Weekly Newspaper - Sunday 15 August 1847 |
1848 ‘The White Lady of Avenel’
‘The opera commences with a chorus: "So gaily, so gaily the pipe and tabor sound," sung by; the peasantry, who are about to celebrate the christening of Dickson's (Mr. O'Donnell) child, an exceedingly animated and sprightly composition.’
Lloyd's Weekly Newspaper - Sunday 13 August 1848 |
1848 ‘An Uninvited Guest’; report of a Court Hearing:
‘passionate love for music and dancing. was going home through the Hotwell-Road when ” The sound of minstrelsy; The pipe and tabor and the tinkling cymbal struck on his ear." He could not resist the temptation; the sounds evidently issued from a window some fifteen feet above him ; but. in such cause, difficulties were as nothing, and so, hoping that the window might be connected with a tavern, he began to clamber the wall, and attained the required elevation. His appearance through the aperture was differently hailed—one cried. Come in. drink and be merry,” while others shouted, Peck him over,” Down with the window and chop his head off,” and fearing that one or other of the threats against him might put into execution, he made his way into the room....’
Bristol Mercury - Saturday 01 January 1848 |
1848 poem ‘A Voice of Encouragement A New Year’s Lay’ Dublin Weekly Nation - Saturday 01 January 1848 |
1849 ‘The Trumpeter’s Wedding’ at the Theatre Royal, Haymarket, London
“The parties march to the church to the sound of pipe and tabor”
Globe - Thursday 22 March 1849 |
1849 ‘The True Workman’ verse 1 Nottingham and Newark Mercury - Friday 27 July 1849 |
1849 At Theatre Royal, Haymarket – play The Brigand:  Globe - Thursday 22 March 1849 |
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1850 Derby Day: Illustrated London News - Saturday 01 June 1850 |
Durham Chronicle - Friday 03 January 1851
Stanzas written on New Year’s Eve
“Wake then, ye minstrels, pipe and tabor,
And flutes and cymbals – softly-softly
Bid men arose to manly labour
And in its scabbard sheathe his sabre
And love his God, and love his neighbour.” |
1851 A Christmas Garland  Bolton Chronicle - Saturday 20 December 1851 |
1851 story about a bear:  Manchester Courier and Lancashire General Advertiser Saturday 15 March 1851 |
1851 essay:  Leamington Advertiser, and Beck's List of Visitors - Thursday 24 July 1851 |
1851 poem' Illustrated Proverbs' by John Wade Clinton Worcestershire Chronicle - Wednesday 22 October 1851 |
1851 Christmas Rhyme  Portsmouth Times and Naval Gazette - Saturday 27 December 1851 |
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1852 poem ' The Love of Song' by John B Pedler North Wales Chronicle - Friday 06 August 1852 |
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1852 'Amateur Theatricals - ‘A Wonderful Woman’ at Bath Theatre' Bath Chronicle and Weekly Gazette - Thursday 15 January 1852 |
1852 produced at the Haymarket:
‘White Magic’, a two-act comic operetta
‘the chorus Let pipe and tabor,” with its double subjects,
is ingenious and effective.’
Illustrated London News - Saturday 20 March 1852
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1853 The Fancy Ball
 Coleraine Chronicle - Saturday 07 May 1853
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1854 poem 'Song for Holmfirth feast'
 Huddersfield Chronicle - Saturday 27 May 1854
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1854 newspaper article:
"In truth there is no end to the vanity of some men. Leamington Spa Courier - Saturday 24 June 1854 |
1854 Song  Manchester Times - Wednesday 28 June 1854 |
Review of the 1855 edition of Bentley's Miscellany:  Taunton Courier, and Western Advertiser - Wednesday 07 February 1855 |
1855: The newspaper reviewer is bewildered by versification
as incoherent as the following:
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1856
The Witches Sabbath
“They dance to the sound of the tabor and flute, and
sometimes
with the long instrument they carry at the neck,
and thence
stretching to near the girdle, which they beat
with a little stick”
THE WORSHIP OF THE GENERATIVE POWERS: BY THOMAS WRIGHT |
1856 Christmas Song  Manchester Courier and Lancashire General Advertiser - Saturday 27 December 1856 |
1856 ‘The Death of the Old Year’ Maidstone Journal and Kentish Advertiser - Tuesday 30 December 1856 |
1856 ‘Celebrated Women No. 3 Fair Rosamund’ Commercial Journal - Saturday 19 July 1856 |
1857
"Who knows how he may have been disturbed? A pretty milliner may have attracted Harry’s attention out of window—
a dancing bear with pipe and tabor may have passed along the common—a jockey come under his windows to show off a horse there?
There are some days when any of us may be ungrammatical and spell ill. "
'The Virginians' William Makepeace Thackeray
“The air resounds with the pipe and tabor, and the drums and trumpets of the showmen shouting at the doors of their caravans,
over which tremendous pictures of the wonders to be seen within hang temptingly; while through all rises the shrill "root-too-too-too"
of Mr. Punch, and the unceasing pan-pipe of his satellite.”
1857 'Tom Brown’s School-days' Thomas Hughes |
1857 'A Song for Christmas':  Birmingham Journal - Saturday 03 January 1857 |
1857 ‘Anticipation of Spring’  Longford Journal - Saturday 07 February 1857 |
1858 poem ‘Roger Merryweather’ Durham County Advertiser - Friday 08 January 1858 |
1858 Criticism of hymn:  Cheltenham Examiner - Wednesday 29 September 1858 |
1858 'Behind the Scenes’  Hampshire Advertiser - Saturday 18 December 1858 |
1859 Mythological Reception - newspaper story:  Nottinghamshire Guardian - Thursday 31 March 1859 |
In 1859, at nine o'clock in the evening:
“a fife and tabour announce the advent of a little dancing boy and girl, with a careworn mother, in the street below. I look from
my window, and see the little painted people capering in their spangles and fleshings and short calico drawers.”
‘Twice Round the Clock, or The Hours of the Day and Night in London’, by George Augustus Sala
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1859 report on a religious ceremony in Italy:  Globe - Tuesday 27 September 1859 |
1860 ‘Spring Flowers’ poem by Sidney Dobell Gloucestershire Chronicle - Saturday 21 April 1860 |
1860 ‘Lord Haddo and the Morality of Art’ Brighton Gazette - Thursday 24 May 1860 |
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1860 song from ‘The May Queen’ Worcester Journal - Saturday 15 September 1860 |
1861 Prologue at the Princes Theatre, Glasgow:
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1862
“in the retirement of his own apartment had spent his evening
as calmly among his books
as if the sound of pipe and tabor
had fallen on a deafened ear.”
Richmond Times Dispatch, November 1862 |
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1862 hymn from: 'Those eternal bowers'
"What! with pipe and tabor
Fool away the light,
When He bids you labour,—
When He tells you,—‘Fight!’ " |
1862 'Autumn'  Coventry Standard - Saturday 25 October 1862 |
1863 - 'Ode' by John Holland
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1864 At the Assembly Room in the Guildhall, Worcester,
in aid of the distressed weavers of Coventry: Prologue: Worcestershire Chronicle - Wednesday 03 February 1864 |
1864 sermon reported in Birmingham Daily Gazette
- Tuesday 01 November 1864  |
1864 Ode toWinter
 Leamington Spa Courier - Saturday 24 December 1864
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1865 The Poets Pilgrimage by Tom Hood
 Soulby's Ulverston Advertiser and General Intelligencer - Thursday 20 April 1865
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1865  West Middlesex Herald - Saturday 09 September 1865 |
1865 ‘A Game of Romps with my Boys’ by Charles Kent  Sun (London) - Thursday 09 March 1865 |
1865
Amateur Concert in aid of the Cathedral Restoration Fund
 Chichester Express and West Sussex Journal - Tuesday 25 April 1865 |
1865 ‘Confessions of a Wanderer’ Blackburn Times - Saturday 29 April 1865
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1868 Oxford Times - Saturday 10 October 1868
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1869 'April Fancies' Exeter and Plymouth Gazette Daily Telegrams - Thursday 01 April 1869 |
1869 story: ‘A Legend of the Wansbeck’ by W H Short  Morpeth Herald - Saturday 21 August 1869 |
