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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 |
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 HoodTaunton 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 1Nottingham 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 ClintonWorcestershire 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 PedlerNorth 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 DobellGloucestershire 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 |
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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1868Oxford 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 |
1870 Glossop Record - Saturday 19 February 1870 Verse II |
1872 poem entitled 'The Sewing Machine' County Advertiser & Herald for Staffordshire and Worcestershire - Saturday 15 June 1872 |
In a Special Entertainment called 'A Comical Ballet Extraordinary', with a pipe and tabor, was performed at Crystal Palace
Great Stage as advertised in
'Bell's Life in London and Sporting Chronicle' - Saturday 13 April 1872 |
1872 description of a painting featuring two wandering minstrels: Daily News (London) - Thursday 31 October 1872 |
1873 story ‘Lost Heir of Lynwood’ Essex Newsman - Saturday 14 June 1873 |
1874 ‘To a Dejected One’
Barnsley Independent - Saturday 05 September 1874 |
1875 poem ‘King’s Delight’Thanet Advertiser - Saturday 14 August 1875 |
1877 political satire: Truth - Thursday 06 September 1877 |
1878 poem 'Sweet Peace'
Wilts and Gloucestershire Standard - Saturday 27 July 1878 |
1878 poem 'Old Knowles Has Flit'Preston Chronicle - Saturday 28 September 1878 |
1878 song 'The Barrel Organ' Truth - Thursday 17 October 1878 |
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1879 poem The Referee - Sunday 29 June 1879 |
1879 story - ‘The Red House in Blank Street by Geo.Manville Fenn’Pateley Bridge & Nidderdale Herald - Saturday 27 December 1879 |
1880 a poem about peace:
Hartlepool Northern Daily Mail - Tuesday 21 September 1880 |
1880 -
‘Merrie Men of Sherwood Forest’ an operetta composed by W H Birch
“We’ll dance we’ll sing to the pipe and tabor
We’ll sing and dance neath the trysting tree”
Derbyshire Courier - Saturday 17 April 1880 |
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1880 Congregational Schools Concert, St Helens; the first part
of the concert consisted of the ‘May Queen’ written in 1858.Runcorn Examiner - Saturday 18 December 1880 |
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1881 Gilbert and Sullivan operetta Patience:
‘Once more enters the graceful procession,
to the sound of the pipe and tabor’
Daily Telegraph & Courier (London) - Monday 25 April 1881 |
1881 poem Woolwich Gazette - Saturday 13 August 1881 |
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1882 Gilbert, Iolanthe, first night
Act I -
SOLO-PHYLLIS.
"I'm very much pained to refuse,
But I'll stick to my pipes and my tabors;
I can spell all the words that I use,
And my grammar's as good as my neighbours". |
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1884 poem 'The Roll-Call of the Ages'Justice - Saturday 02 August 1884 |
1884,Twelth Night was performed at the Lyceum Theatre, London, reported in The Stage - Friday 11 July 1884 |
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1884 poem ‘The Cry of the Girls’ Isle of Wight Observer - Saturday 04 October 1884 |
1884Illustrated Sporting and Dramatic News - Saturday 06 December 1884 |
1884 poem Western Daily Press - Wednesday 24 December 1884 |
1885 Comic sketches by Mr Corney Grain called ‘Election Notes’
at St Georges HallLondon Evening Standard - Friday 13 November 1885 |
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In 1885, 'Cries of London, A History', the following is reported:
"Holloway cheese-cakes" was once one of the London cries; they were sold by a man on horseback; and in
"A Drum's Entertainment," a Comedy, I600, in a random song, the festive character of this district is denoted:
"Skip it and trip it nimbly, nimbly,
Tickle it, tickle it, lustily,
Strike up the tabor for the wenches favour,
Tickle it, tickle it, lustily.
Let us be seene on Hygate-Greene,
To dance for the honour of Holloway.
Since we are come hither, let's spare for no leather,
To dance for the honour of Holloway." |
1885 A Carol for ChristmasLeicester Journal - Friday 25 December 1885 |
pipe and tabor used as a metaphor
1844 ‘Young Englandism’ a political essay
Liverpool Albion - Monday 17 June 1844
1886 in a review of the play ' Bric a Brac':
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1886 poem: Civil & Military Gazette (Lahore, Pakistan) - Monday 26 April 1886 |
1886 story: North Devon Journal - Thursday 10 June 1886 |
1887 poem ‘The Roll Call of the Ages’St. Christopher Gazette - Friday 04 March 1887
Saint Kitts, Saint Kitts and Nevis |
1887 poem 'Cavalier Lyrics' by J.W. Ebsworth
“Voila Ma Vie"
To him who mildest toil seems play
Since well he loves his labour
Life gives continual holiday
While Time plays pipe and tabor ...”
Newcastle Courant - Friday 24 June 1887
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1887 ‘Talkers Compared to Musical Instruments’Northern Weekly Gazette - Saturday 25 June 1887 |
1888 ‘A Play Upon Local Surnames'Lowestoft Journal - Saturday 17 March 1888 |
1887 At Maidstone Assizes:Gloucester Citizen - Wednesday 26 October 1887 |
1888Gloucester Citizen - Thursday 01 March 1888
‘Topic of the Day’ |
1889 comment on an Address to the Bloomsbury Rifles:Gloucester Citizen - Monday 18 February 1889 |
1889 Newspaper review of the life of Rossini, Italian composer: Gloucester Journal - Saturday 07 September 1889 |
1889 Book review: Gloucester Journal - Saturday 23 November 1889 |
1895 ‘Topics of the Day’Gloucester Citizen - Thursday 28 March 1895 |
1888 story ‘The Outlaws of Tunstall Forest’ Hampshire Telegraph - Saturday 16 June 1888 |
1888 story 'For Faith and Freedom'Illustrated London News - Saturday 21 July 1888 |
1889 Chough Musical Society concert: Sporting Life - Tuesday 22 January 1889 |
1890 story ‘Reviews and Magazines for April – King and Minister a Midnight Conversation’Home News for India, China and the Colonies - Friday 04 April 1890 |
1890 ‘Robin Hood or the Merry Men of Sherwood Forest’ presented by Grasmere Choral Society:Lakes Herald - Friday 04 April 1890 |
1891 Enfield Musical Society's concert included 'The May Queen':Middlesex Gazette - Saturday 11 April 1891 |
1891 poem for May 1st:
chorusReynolds's Newspaper - Sunday 03 May 1891 |
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1891York Herald - Friday 06 March 1891 |
1891 ‘Special Double Acrostic’The Queen - Saturday 02 May 1891 |
1891 Christmas newspaper criticism:Empire News & The Umpire - Sunday 13 December 1891 |
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1892 Henry VIII at the Lyceum TheatreHendon & Finchley Times - Friday 19 February 1892 |
1892 Advertisement: ‘London’ by Walter BesantTruth - Thursday 15 September 1892 |
1892 ‘Original Sayings of Children’Newcastle Chronicle - Saturday 17 September 1892 |
1892 story regarding 16th century church: Exeter and Plymouth Gazette - Tuesday 18 October 1892 |
1895 review of ‘Much Ado about Nothing performed by the Athenaeum Club ‘ London Norwood News - Saturday 18 May 1895 |
1895 ‘Happy Arcadia written by W S Gilbert’ at St George's Hall The Stage - Thursday 18 July 1895 |
1895 poem ‘The Farmer’s Family’ East Anglian Daily Times - Wednesday 16 October 1895 |
1896 poem
in the newspaper after a discussion regarding amateur/professional sportspeople: |
1896 ‘The Birmingham Trilby’ Truth - Thursday 16 April 1896 |
1896 story Southern Reporter - Thursday 16 July 1896 |
1896 commentary on politics: ‘The Congress’Clarion - Saturday 08 August 1896 |
1896 political poem Globe - Monday 03 August 1896 |
1896 Christmas poem ‘Christmas Carillons’ Leeds Times - Saturday 12 December 1896 |
1897 ‘Song for Labour Day’Justice - Saturday 01 May 1897 |
1897 ‘The I.L.P.’ Hull Daily News - Thursday 11 February 1897 |
1897 The Tempest at Steinway Hall, London
‘The tabor and pipes were also employed.’
The Stage - Thursday 10 June 1897
London Evening Standard - Saturday 05 June 1897 |
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'Pipe and tabor' were sometimes used as titles to romantic poetry, tunes and songs:
The Merry Pipe and Tabor, by A Lee, pub 1826
White Magic a two-act comic opera at the Haymarket Theatre, reviewed in the
Illustrated London News - Saturday 20 March 1852:
“The chorus ‘Let pipe and tabor’ with its double subjects, is ingenious and effective...”
1858 at a concert in Dublin, Republic of Ireland:
1872 "We'll dance, we'll sing to the Pipe and Tabor", from Robin Hood
Pipe and Tabor, a polka, by Dufresne, 1875
1877 during ‘May Day Celebration at Knutsford’the song ‘Come Sound the Merry Tabor’ was sung by children
'Tabor Melodies' a book of Canadian poetry, published in Toronto 1878
Song ‘The Pipe and Tabor’ 1889
the New York Times 1892, a notice under literary notes: "a volume of poems
by W. J. Henderson under the title of " Pipe and Tabor. ...will soon be published"
1893 ‘New Music The Leadenhall Press – Seven Songs to Sing’
“Very funny and humorous are the words of ‘The Pipe and Tabor’ composed by J L Roeckel Birmingham Daily Post - Monday 14 August 1893
Grace B Stuart (born c.1854-?) wrote: 'With Pipe and Tabor' in 1897
Sheffield Independent - Friday 21 May 1897Perthshire Advertiser - Friday 28 May 1897
Sound the Pipe and Tabor by Karel Beudl, 1899
Pipe and Tabor by Barri (organ music)
Sound Up the Pipe and Tabor, Peppercorn 1904 for choir
Pipe and Tabor by Roger Quilter, a piano solo, 1923
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The pipe and tabor were often used to recall the romance of the past in images and the written word: |
1827 part of a poem:
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1834 The birds are all singing - a Duet (Upton)
"He Sweetly, sweetly, the birds are all singing
She - Merrily, Merrily, the bells are all ringing
While the pipe and tabor in harmony play,
He - For Edward and Phillis are married today." |
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1840's story |
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1842, Robert Browning: 'Dramatic Lyrics'
XXVI.
"Who thinks Hugues wrote for the deaf,
Proved a mere mountain in labour?
Better submit; try again; what's the clef?
'Faith, 'tis no trifle for pipe and for tabor---
Four flats, the minor in F." |
1844 Political report:
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1847
"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
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1859
"But rude hands rent the vail in twain, And rushing in, a motley crew Profaned the sacred, golden fane, And as the orgies louder grew, The footstep of the past withdrew. And festive rites beneath the moon Were held, and like to concords sweet, The pipe and tabor played in tune, And round and round the jewelled feet Of dancing girls the marbles beat;"
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1861
"Ring, ring, village bells,
Cheerily, cheerily!
In their best
All are dressed,
Hastening to the green.
Merrily, merrily !
Sound the pipe and tabor,
Twinkling feet
Measures beat,
Garlands crown the queen".
from PARIS AND PLEASURE or
HOME AND HAPPINESS in
FOUR ACTS
by
CHARLES SELBY |
Dorset County Chronicle - Thursday 19 March 1863 reporting on the Prince of Wales wedding celebrations in a Dorset village:
“pipe and tabor would have matched the dark rafters better [than the fiddle and tambourine that were actually there] .....” |
1887 song: Buckingham Express - Saturday 08 October 1887 |
1888 Said to come from Poor Robin’s Almanac of 1695 – ‘So Now is come our Joyful Feast’Denton and Haughton Examiner - Saturday 22 December 1888 |
1889 Floral Fete at the Albert Hall, London |
Henry VIII at the Lyceum Theatre as reported in the
Hendon & Finchley Times - Friday 19 February 1892
Mr Irving has arranged that “a band of fantastically attired Mummers, with pipe and tabor, press through the throng” |
1898 At Dalys Theatre, London : 'A Greek Slave
A Musical Comedy in Two Acts'
"Opening Chorus: ... Though delaying
From our labour,
We must soon awake,
Touching, playing,
Pipe and tabor,
For our master's sake." |
1905 Dorset, Sherborne Pageant:
“ a rustic musician, perched on a barrel, keeps time with pipe and tabor to the old English melody
sung by a Dramatic Chorus in Lincoln green” |
1907 in a play 'The Parish Clerk' (1907) Ditchfield, P. H. wrote:
“Robert Smyth ... accusing the vicar of being a companion of tipplers and fooling away his time
with pipe and tabor, and finally bringing an accusation against him, on account of which the poor
man was cited before the High Commission Court. The charge came to nothing” |
1910
In a newspaper report ‘Notes of the Week’, the reporter opines, of morris dancing:
"a pipe and tabor should be used for making ther music in order that the picture of
old-world merriment might be complete in every detail" |
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