1515 manuscript, entertainerts
marginal illustration

1517 Lyons (Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes): a legal case appearing before the court of the seneschal suggests that
pipe and tabor players formed a distinct class among minstrels, as
"Molhet and certain others among their associates, they who called themselves sworn masters of the art of the tabor players
and minstrels of the city... wanted to force the new tabor players and instrument makers to become masters, to create
masterpieces and to pay for certain banquets and money..."

Molhet, taborin player, is listed in accounts from 1507 onwards. he was buried in Saint Paul in 1524.

‘The musical sounds of medieval French cities : players, patrons, and politics’ by Peters, Gretchen, 2012

1530 backdrops for a performance of the ‘Mystére de la vengeance de Jhesus-Christ’ at Rheims (Grand Est )
include one scene with a slightly raised stage for musicians. They are playing rebec, slide trumpet, pipe and tabor
and one other unspecified wind instrument, to accompany a round dance going on in the middle of the canvas.

'MUSIC IN THE FRENCH SECULAR THEATER 1400-1550', by Howard Mayer Brown. 1963

1537 Paris
" James Basset was studying in Paris and was taught to dance by a taberet:
Item, paid to Monsieur Simon, a tabourin , who taught him to dance for the second time
for the space of ij months. iij t s v j

‘Musical Instruments at the Court of Henry VIII’ by Palmer, Frances Lisle Letters IV, p 517

1548 Lyons; entry of Henry I and Queen Catherine de Medici. The city went to great lengths and acquired considerable
debt to impress the royal party with its loyalty and support…. Among the instrumentalists were pipe and tabor players,
some of whom were from Montbrison (Loire)

‘The musical sounds of medieval French cities : players, patrons, and politics’ by Peters, Gretchen, 2012