1855 Letter from Corporal Wilson of the First Duke’s Own, Zante, Greece:Lancaster Gazette - Saturday 08 September 1855, England

Depending on the area of ​​origin, this instrument has different names and substantial differences in the constructive structure. The three main types are:
1.     pipiolu del Logudoro
2.     sulitu of Marmilla
3.     pipajolu from Barbagia

Part of the description of a pageant of the Danish King Christian IV:
"Several groups of musicians accompany the procession in the front part: 3 women with transverse flute, lute
and viola da gamba, 3 men with 2 x one-handed flutes and drums and 1 x shawm, 3 men with one-handed flutes
and drums, lute and viola da gamba, 2 x 3 men with one-handed flute and drum, shawm and viola da gamba ..."

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1799 'ACCOUNT of the MARRIAGES of the modern GREEKS'.

“ I Was present at a marriage ceremony between two Greek peasants…animated by the loud and rude tones
of a tabor and pipe, the first man waving a small flag.”

The Lady's Magazine; or entertaining companion for the fair sex, appropriated solely to their use and amusement, Volume 30, page 149

1819 Extract from a letter dated Cephalonia, Oct. 29 'A Greek Marriage'

"The bride, a pretty girl of two or three and twenty, dressed in all her finery, was waiting for the bridegroom ;
and the villagers, in their holiday clothes, .... were dancing to the pipe and drum. ... The bride mounted her mule,
took leave of their relations, and departed with the bridegroom, preceded by a piper and tabor..."

[Ed: was this a taborer or two separate musicians?]

1841 diary entry:

“…All this was accompanied by a monotonous but not unpleasing sound of music proceeding from a pipe and tabor.
We then rode on towards the customhouse, ...”

'DIARY OF A TOUR IN GREECE, TURKEY, EGYPT, AND THE HOLY LAND.
BY THE HON. MRS. G. L. DAWSON DAMER. IN TWO VOLUMES. VOL. I.'

1896 Christian celebration in Ayassos village on Lesbos:

“…On the eve of the feast pilgrims throng the streets of Ayassos, flocking from all parts of the island….
The cafés do a roaring trade; inside there is hardly standing room. By-and-bye, as the evening goes on,
the merriment waxes furious, and couples or groups begin to dance in the streets, or anywhere they can,
to the doleful sound of pipe and tabor. The favourite dance is the syrtes…”

11th century pipe and reconstruction

1483 Wrocław City Hall

"Polska: Dances from across Sweden; each village or parish developed its own variant.... The music
for polska is most commonly played on violin, either solo, or more recently, in groups called spelmanslag,
but is also played on 3-hole pipe."