22-6-1796 report of dancing in colonial police incident:
“indicted for feloniously stealing, on the 7th of May , 900lb. weight of dressed flax , value 20l.”
“Chandler's defence. I know nothing at all about the robbery; I slept at Bedell's that night;
there were fifes and drums and dancing, and I was pretty much in liquor, and slept there; that is all I know about it.”

‘SOCIAL DANCE AND EARLY AUSTRALIAN SETTLEMENT: An historical examination of the role of social dance for convicts
and the ‘lower orders’ in the period between 1788 and 1840’ by Heather Evelyn Clarke

1819 pandean pipes for dancing at “The Queen's Birthday Ball, 23 January 1819

"At Governor Macquarie's ball, violins were used in conjunction with wind instruments.
following supper, 'about 170 ladies and gentlemen' were [r]e-summoned to the sprightly dance by the novel
and attractive sound of the Pandean pipes, whose shrill tones were mellowed by the softer cadences of flutes,
claronets, and violins; the company returned to the ball- room, where the dancing continued with uncommon
vivacity and spirit until four o'clock in the morning, when the party retired highly gratified with the superior
and truly fascinating amusements of the evening.”

The Sydney Gazette, and New South Wales Advertiser Saturday, 23 January 1819
quoted in The First Fleet Piano: Volume One A Musician’s View · Volume 1 by Geoffrey Lancaster ·chapter 8 page 433, 2013

1820 Dancing on the convict ship Guildford

The 'Guildford' transported 190 convict men to the colony from England to Australia (15 April 1820 to 5 November 1820).
Surgeon-superintendent, Hugh Walker reported that no convicts died on the voyage and commented on their remarkable
health which he attributed to cleanliness, ventilation and daily mustering on deck. In his medical journal he recommended
that convict ships should carry pipes and tabors so that convicts may dance to prevent them brooding on their misfortunes.

'Medical Journal of Hugh Walker on the voyage of the Guildford in 1820.' The National Archives. Kew, Richmond, Surrey.

1820 Michael Keane, a 'drummer and fifer' arrived in Sydney on 2 May 1820. He wrote a letter/autobiography
to The Australian (Sydney, NSW}published Sat 11 Nov 1826  Page 4  QUARTER SESSIONS

‘SOCIAL DANCE AND EARLY AUSTRALIAN SETTLEMENT: An historical examination of the role of social dance for convicts
and the ‘lower orders’ in the period between 1788 and 1840’ by Heather Evelyn Clarke. Colonial Convict and Lower Order Musicans

“1832. Churchman Thomas, Glory, pipe maker and servant, to George Watkins, Sydney”

NEW SOUTH WALES. RETURN OF ALL CONVICTS ASSIGNED AND TRANSFERRED
BETWEEN THE 1st AND 31st DAYS OF MAY, 1832, INCLUSIVELY.
Government Gazette Notices - New South Wales Government Gazette (Sydney, NSW ) Wednesday 22 August 1832 - Page 246

[This could be a person who makes pipes for smoking]

1837 The pipe and tabor played on the Sabbath: Court account

“A Mrs Dedman, who resides next door to Mrs. Q. in Pitt Street, upon
coming home from church, was startled at hearing the sound of pipe and tabor, and
dancing in her neighbour's house. She observed it was scandalous such a circum-
stance should occur upon the Sabbath ; on hearing which, Mrs. Q. rushed up the
steps of Mrs. D.'s house, and struck her two or three times;…  "

The Sydney Gazette and New South Wales Advertiser (NSW ) Thursday 16 February 1837 - Page 2

1848 Syrian weddings

"A pipe and tabor, with a long drum, kept up in-
cessantly a noisy music, discordant to me, but
very pleasing to the people of the country. In
the.middle of the ring, those who choose stood up,
one by one, and danced a slow dance. …
 The woman also had a pipe and tabor, and dancing
boys with castanets to amuse them. …”

The Britannia and Trades' Advocate (Hobart Town, Tas.) Thursday 6 April 1848 - Page 4

1848 BallBell's Life in Sydney and Sporting Reviewer (NSW ) Saturday 9 December 1848 - Page 3

1849 The Floral SocietyThe Sydney Morning Herald (NSW ) Thursday 3 May 1849 - Page 2

1849 “The " Mary Ann."-
"Yesterday was the time appointed for the launch of this beautifully built vessel … A dance then followed on the beach, and the light fantastic toe answered merrily to the sylvan pipe and tabor. The fun now commenced ; no ill feeling, all happiness seemed to have the sway. …”

Colonial Times (Hobart, Tas. Friday 18 May 1849 - Page 2

1849
“CHRISTMAS SPORTS.—At North and South
Brisbane and Kangaroo Point, yea even to the
extremities of the township, and beyond the boundaries
thereof, Christmas was seen and felt.  … In the evening there
was dancing, to the sound of the pipe and the tabor.

The Moreton Bay Courier (Brisbane, Qld.) Saturday 29 December 1849 - Page 2

1865 North Australian Annual RacesQueensland Times, Ipswich Herald and General Advertiser (Qld.) Thursday 8 June 1865 - Page 3

1866 report on South Australian Institute soiree: “Institute Soiree.— The usual quarterly soiree
of the South Australian Institute took place at the Town Hall on Tuesday evening, December 18. …”"The lecturer then referred to the songs contained in many of Shakspeare's plays, and exhibited
some dolls which he made dance to the music of a tabor or pipe to the manifest delight of the
audience. He then described the morris dance and its origin"

1867 Select Poetry - Musings The Manning River News and Advocate for the Northern Coast Districts of New South Wales (Tinonee, NSW )
Saturday 23 November 1867 - Page 4

1878 poem: Sydney Punch (NSW) Saturday 26 January 1878 - Page 7

1882 Music Festival …  2 bass trombones, 2 tabors, 2 kettle-drums, …

The South Australian Advertiser (Adelaide, SA 9) Tuesday 16 May 1882 - Page 5

1886 Iolanthe was performed: in which

“Phyllis is determined to stick to her pipes and her tabors, and says she can spell all the words which she uses,
and that her grammar is as good as her neighbours…”.

The South Australian Advertiser (Adelaide, SA) Thursday 7 January 1886 - Page 5

1886 ‘Low Ambition of the Life and Death of Mr Daw’Record (Emerald Hill, Vic.) Saturday 3 April 1886 - Page 5

1886 The St. James's Gazette, England, writing on the " Portents of War, " observes:

…“Over and over again we have heard from the foreign correspondents that peace was certain; that everything
was on the very verge of amicable arrangement that everything, in fact, had been actually settled, and that it was
not too soon to bring forth the pipę, the tabor, and the shawn, to celebrate the final disappearance of the war-cloud….”

The Kyneton Observer (Vic.) Saturday 10 April 1886 - Page 3

1888 Salvation Army Music

 “…The army assert and have shown themselves prepared to maintain, even at the risk of imprisonment,
the right of procession to the sound of musical instruments, pipe tabor and drum. Again and again have
the army and municipalities been brought into conflict, the result being sometimes in favour of one
and sometimes of the other, until confusion seemed to become worse confounded….”

Leader (Melbourne, Vic.) Saturday 29 December 1888 - Page 25

1889 'Australian Autumn'The Argus (Melbourne, Vic) Saturday 30 March 1889 - Page 13

1893 “On and Off the Stage:
The ballet, entitled Turquoisette, which follows the opera at the Princess Theatre, is certainly one of the most
sumptuous and artistic spectacles ever presented in Melbourne. … The music again quickens, and to the joyous
rhythm, marked by pipe and tabor, in' dances an elvish crowd…”

Table Talk (Melbourne, Vic.) Friday 15 September 1893 - Page 5

1893 “Amusements. LyceumTheatre
On Saturday night Mascagni's second work ' L'Amico Fritz,' was received with enthusiasm.,…  The opera
is quiet to a degree. Some people said too quiet; but one can not pass through life singing forte all the time.
It is a pastoral (one is always expecting the pipe and tabor to turn up),…”

Evening News (Sydney, NSW ) Monday 4 December 1893 - Page 3

The Australian Star (Sydney, NSW ) Wednesday 20 June 1894 - Page 4

1899 “In one New South Wales country town the ' Army ' has made a fresh departure. Last week four people,
dressed as jockeys and mounted on valetudinarian war-horses, led the procession, followed by pipe and tabor.”

The Sydney Mail and New South Wales Advertiser (NSW) Saturday 18 March 1899 - Page 612