World: horn and tabor

World: associated pipes

horn and tabor

849 horn and percussion (clappers), Tours, France; a horn is generally played with the hand underneath holding the horn up. f 215v

Many of the earliest images show the horn and tabor or horn and bell:

Byzantium	11th century, stone carving Cambodia	pre-Colombian conch and drum, Mexico, Codex Borgia pl.24 (detail)
1130 St Albans, England
1200-1225 horn and bell East Midlands, England	c. 1300 ass playing horn and bell , England, possibly East Anglia		13th centrury military, Spain [were they played together?]
1325-1350 horn and bell Cologne, Germany	medieval horn found at 1 Poultry, City of London, England
'pitu cabreru' Asturias, Spain
In the eastern region, shepherds continued to make musical instruments from animal horns and bones until very recently. ‘SOBRE INSTRUMENTOS MUSICALES EN LA PREHISTORIA DE ASTURIES’by Dani García de la Cuesta
used by the shepherds of Porrúa, Llanes, Asturias, Spain

1250 Funerary stone monument France	1250-1275 Italy 211v	1273 Aksaray or Kayser Turkey	1287 Padua Italy 204v
1270-1290 France (north) St-Omer?			1300 Flanders, Belgium or the Rhineland [f. 58v]
1300 Flanders, Belgium or the Rhineland [f. 65v]

1290-1310 a devil plays horn and drum, Lorraine, France 018r
© Bodleian Libraries, University of Oxford

1290-1310 Artois, Pas-de-Calais, France 165r trumpet and tabor
© Bodleian Libraries, University of Oxford

after 1280, Library Portal, Rouen Cathedral, France	13th century, a devil / fool plays horn and drum France
1310 fox, Verdun, Grand Est, France [f.195v]

1418 Paris, France 175r

15th century Valencia, Spain

15th century double horn Switzerland
[Ed there are many manuscripts etc with
a similar double-horn image]

between 1450 and 1482 antiphony, Italy

15th century Bruges, Belgium

1517 a devil plays horn and drum
Bern Minster, Switzerland

15th century manuscript, Orléans, France

15th century, close-up of player

c. 1600 North American Indian

1559 trophy, choir-book, Germany

1569 England

1616 musician mentioned in Norwich civic records, England; it is not recorded whether these two instruments
were played together: "Gary Able 1616 Entertainer/ Drum and Trumpet"

1685 Spain on mythical Tarasca

1675-1699 ecclesiastical embroidery
Bavaria, Germany

17th century horn and bell
tapestry, France

1729 Germany

1745 playing for a wedding dance
indigenous inhabitants, Argentina / Chile

1776 Philip Astley was the founder of the circus in England Bentley's Miscellany V8 No 4
1797 Senegal, West Africa	18th century disabled player	1821 caricature of Rossini, France
1838 ‘FAMILY STORIES. No. X.BY THOMAS INGOLDSBY. GRANDPAPA'S STORY- THE WITCHES FROLIC.’ Bentley's Miscellany v.4 page 501