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England: Over one century of the panpipes and tabor

Early to mid Victorian pandean pipes

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early to mid Victorian

1835 story 1835

New Monthly Magazine and Literary Journal page 465

1835 story 1835

Waldie's Select Circulating Library - Volume 6 - Page 419 , Pholidelphia,USA

'Music' 1830's

1830's cartoon by Grandville

for chimney sweeps
procession 1830

with Jack in the Green 1831

for a raree show 1832

at a fair 1832

with Punch and Judy 1834

with stilt walkers 1835

early Victorian at a country fair
© London Museum

strolling minstrel band, London 1835

with Jack in the Green 1835

at a fair 1835

player in band 1835

a comic illustration 1836

with Jack in the Green 1830's poss

with Mr Punch and Toby 1836

with Mr Punch 1837

collecting money after performance 1838

street minstrel 1838-42

playing for dancing dogs 1840

cartoon street band 1839

front cover of Punch magazine
with a Punch and Judy show

part of a street band 1839

unknown date
with puppet booth at fair

1840 with Punch

1840 c1840 with Jack-in-the-Green

with Punch and Judy
Russell Square, London, 1840

Punch magazine 1841

in a band, Paris, France 1841

with Punch, a political satire 1841

Punch illustration 1842

street entertainer, Regent St, 1842

Punch illustration 1842
© Punch Limited

1842 1842

France 1843

unknown date with Jack-in-the-Green, 1843

playing for a charity ball 1844

by a Punch and Judy booth
by Smythe, date unknown

with Punch and Judy
painting by Smythe

1844 cartoon by Grandville, France

unknown 'a punch and judy show at a coastal village'
by Smythe

with Jack in the Green 1845

Punch and Judy date? by Smythe

Punch and Judy
after 1845 by Smythe

with Punch and Judy 1846

part of a Christmas street band 1847

in a band procession 1848

street band 1848

with Jack in the Green 1830-50

with Jack-in-the-Green 1850

painting, playing for puppets 1850

with puppet booth 1851

with acrobats 1851

part of ad hoc Christmas Waits 1853

1854

with Jack in the Green 1856
page 230

playing for dancing dogs, date unknown

1856 France

street entertainer 1858

[Movable Children's Book] 'The Royal Punch & Judy' 1859

with Punch and Judy
before 1860

with puppet booth 1850-60

1860's

Victorian unknown
with Punch and Judy

player at a fair, unknown date

unknown

unknown with fantoccini

unknown

accompanying a fire-eater and an acrobat unknown

unknown’‘Minor Theatricals’

1839 Despite legislation 'bottlers' continued to play in the streets:

Section 54, paragraph 14 of the Metropolitan Police Act of 1839 effectively banned street music, stating that:
“Every person shall be liable to a penalty … who, within the limits of the metropolitan police district, shall in any
thoroughfare or public place, … blow any horn or use any other noisy instrument, for the purpose of calling persons
together, or of announcing any show or entertainment, or for the purpose of hawking, selling, distributing, or collecting
any article whatsoever, or of obtaining money or alms”

1845 newspaper story: 1845

Lloyd's Companion to the Penny Sunday Times and Peoples' Police Gazette - Sunday 27 July 1845

1848 newspaper political comment ‘The Politician - The Deposed Leader of the Country Party’ 1848 Atlas 05 February 1848

1850 'Picturesque Sketches of London Past and Present - Street Amusements' 1850 newspaper cutting Illustrated London News - Saturday 30 March 1850

1849-50 "... I had learnt myself to play the Pandaean pipes, and after that to beat the drum, much to the annoyance
of my mother, who was a religious kerackter. At last I made acquaintance with a person belonging to a street band,
and he proposed that I should go out with him of an evening to play at the hotels. ... We used to play outside the hotels chiefly."

The Morning Chronicle : Labour and the Poor, 1849-50; Henry Mayhew - Letter LII

c 1850 front cover of piano music

1851 London Street Amusements:

"Then the drum, what a spirit stirring sound it makes ! and the pandian pipes,
stuck in a stock of faded crimson velvet, how clear and shrilly they sound !-
the man's head seems as if placed on a swivel, and he hammers and blows away as if for very life. ..."

The Goulburn Herald and County of Argyle Advertiser (NSW ) Saturday 8 February 1851 - Page 1

1857 ' Tom Brown's School Days' by Thomas Hughes (page 34) . The story is set in the 1830's at Rugby School:
1857

1857 “… one comes occasionally upon a wandering company of acrobats, conjurors,
or jugglers, or all three united. .. One of them bangs a big drum and blows a few
inspiriting notes on the Pandean pipes, which is the signal for a general rush to that
quarter from all the outlets of the neighbourhood. …”

The Little World of London, by Charles Manby Smith, 1857

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