World: 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 style painted in 1546, Stavronikita Monastery, Greece	copy painting Stavronikita Monastery Greece	11th century, stone carving Cambodia	pre-Colombian conch and drum, Mexico [Codex Borgia pl.24]
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

France1250 stone carving, Booksellers Portal Rouen Cathedral
	13th century, fool plays horn and drum France. A devil indicates how evil dancing is.
1303 fox, Verdun, Grand Est, France [f.195v]

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

1616 musician mentioned in Norwich civic records, England;
"Gary Able 1616 Entertainer/ Drum and Trumpet"

It is not recorded whether these two instruments were played together.

1685 Jester on mythical Tarasca Spain

1675-1699 ecclesiastical embroidery
Bavaria, Germany

17th century horn and bell, tapestry, France

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

1776 Philip Astley was the founder of the circus in England 1776

Bentley's Miscellany V8 No 4, page 367, footnote

1797 Senegal
West Africa

18th century disabled player

1813 caricature with monkey player
London, England

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

1848 France

1850 Puck from 'A Midsummer Night's Dream'Scotland

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

c.1860 France
[more putti clocks here]

1842-1887 caricature, Netherlands

1867 photograph
"native man of a Himalayan tribe;
the wind instrument is possibly
a Tibetan kangling,
a human thighbone trumpet."

19th century Tibetan lama

1873 engraving from a photograph

1875 part of a band, Goa, India	19th century, bronze statuette France	19th century dagger sheath after Holbein
1857 'Childhood Alphabet' France © Musée de l’Image	1860-1888 'Alphabet Masquerade' France; also here 1875	1880's France © Musée de l’Image	1875 'Famous Imaginary Characters - Pierrot' France © Musée de l’Image
1885 story 'benefits of civilisation' France	between 1880 and 1887 France © Musée de l’Image	unknown