Australia more in Australia gallery here |
The indigenous people of Australia do not have a pipe and tabor tradition. That was brought over by colonialists
in Victorian or earlier times. The evolution of pipe and tabor was based upon English traditions and followed
a similar path to that in England. |
John Randall was born 1764 in New Haven, Conn. North America, died in Australia.
John Randall, a Negro laborer, was tried at Manchester on 14 April 1785 for stealing a watch chain
on the docks at Liverpool. Sent to the Ceres hulk in 1786, aged 21 sentenced to 7 years transportation.
He was a crack shot. He was made an official game keeper by governor Phillip and killed the first Emu
seen by Europeans. In June 1799 Randall was accused of theft of plates and glasses from the governor,
but was forgiven. Randall was about 6 feet tall and well built. He played the flute and tambour. |
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Canada Canada gallery here |
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Hong Kong |
1851 Overland China Mail - Friday 28 November 1851 |
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 2015 Hong Kong early music |
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India |
1684
“…let us proceed to another Tragedy,… [Ed this may be an Indian drum of some sort]
a Woman, that was engaged in some Love-intrigues with a young Mahumetan her Neighbour, that was a Tailor,
and could play finely upon the Tabor . This Woman in the hopes she had of marrying this young man, poison'd
her Husband…, the Woman goes to embrace and bid farewell to all her Kindred that were there about the Pit,
among whom was also the Tailor, who had been invited to play upon the Tabor that day, with many others of
that sort of Men, according to the custome of the Country…”
'Collections of travels through Turky into Persia, and the East-Indies Giving an account of the present state of those
countries. As also
a full relation of the five years wars, between Aureng-Zebe and his brothers in their father's life-time, about the succession. And a voyage
made by the Great Mogul (Aureng-Zebe) with his army from Dehli to Lahor, from Lahor to Bember, and from thence to the kingdom
of Kachemire, by the Mogols, call'd The paradise of the Indies. Together with a relation of the kingdom of Japan and Tunkin, and of
their particular manners and trade. To which is added a new description of the grand seignior's seraglio, and also of all the kingdoms
that encompass the Euxine and Caspian seas. Being the travels of Monsieur Tavernier Bernier, and other great men: adorned with
many
copper plates. The first volume’ by Tavernier, Jean-Baptiste |
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1792 among a huge range of goods was imported:    Calcutta Gazette - Thursday 13 September 1792 |
1794  Calcutta Gazette - Thursday 04 December 1794 |
1794 Calcutta [ Ed one of many advertisements for these organs in 1794]   Calcutta Gazette - Thursday 18 December 1794 |
1794 Madras:
“For sale at Waddle and Stewarts: ...capital organ with pipe and tabor...”
Madras Courier - Friday 19 December 1794 |
1795 Calcutta Gazette - Thursday 26 November 1795
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1795  Madras Courier - Wednesday 09 September 1795 |
1805 newspaper advertisement: Sales by Auction
‘tabour and pipe, a tambour de basque, a drum,’
Morning Herald (London) - Wednesday 01 May 1805 |
1806 India:
advertised imported on the ship called 'Tottenham'
A sale of goods on 2nd January 1807 included wine, fabrics, haberdashery
and musical instruments, Madras Courier - Wednesday 31 December 1806 |
1808 newspaper report of a Masked Ball
“ In our paper of last week we gave an account of the various scenes of this splendid entertainment…
merry Savoyards whose lively long and pipe and tabor bespoke them genuine votaries of the Heaven
yelep'd Euphrosyne….”
[Ed. Euphrosyne is a goddess of good cheer, joy and mirth.]
Bombay Courier, volume 17 |
1808 private subscription Masquerade:   Government Gazette (India) - Thursday 11 February 1808 |
1811 masquerade  Madras Courier - Tuesday 02 April 1811 |
1812 Venetian Fete:  Madras Courier - Tuesday 09 February 1813 |
1816 On 22nd and 28th January a supper and ball were given with entertainments on the pipe and tabor.  Madras Courier - Tuesday 30 January 1816 |
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1823 Mrs Casement's 'At Home'  Bombay Gazette 12 March 1823 |
1824 An Englishman visited Aurangabad, officially now known as Chhatrapati Sambhajinagar, Maharashtra.
At the time the land was controlled by the East India Company.  ‘The wonders of Elora : or the narrative of a journey to the temples and dwellings excavated out of a mountain of granite,
and extending upwards of a mile and a quarter, at Elora, in the East-Indies’ by Seely, John B. |
1835 newspaper report:
“Pipe and tabor and dancing at festivities in Calcutta”
Bombay Gazette - Wednesday 14 January 1835; copied from the Delhi Gazette, December 17th 1834 |
1835 newspaper report:
“…he sees no objection to their gratulations of the Baronet with pipe, tabor, dance, and toasting
when assembled by any other person than the chief of Bailiffs….”
Bombay Gazette 14 January 1835 |
1836 Tuda people description  REVIEW OF NEW BOOKS.
‘A DESCRIPTION OF A SINGULAR ABORIGINAL RACE INHABITING THE SUMMIT OF THE NEILGHERRY HILLS,
or the Blue Mountains of Coimbatoor, in the Southern Peninsula of India’. by Captain H. Harkness, of the Madras Service. 1836 |
1837 newspaper comment:  Bombay Gazette 13 October 1837 |
1850 poem  Bombay Gazette 18 September 1850 |
1862 role of the barber in a village on the Deccan Plateau, Southern India:
The Barra Balloota is 12 men who assist in the running of the village: the offices are hereditory. The Nahawe
is the barber. Apart from cutting the nails and hair of the villagers he plays the pipe and tabor at weddings.
‘Travels in Peru and India, while superintending the collection of Chinchona plants and seeds in South America, and their introduction into India’
by Clements R. Markham
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 20th century band with pipe and tabor player
'Prints from Bengal:
modernism in colonial India'
by Mukul Chandra Dey |
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Two 19th century paintings on mica of processions:
musicians with percussion and wind instruments |
1885  ‘The cyclopaedia of India and of Eastern and Southern Asia, commercial, industrial, and scientific :
products of the mineral,
vegetable and animal kingdoms, useful arts and manufactures’. 2, by Balfour, Edward |
1898 description of a trip of an Englishman to Chitrál which existed from the 17th century until its abolition in 1969.
It is now part of Pakistan. ‘Chapter V An Oriental Interlude’ Desciption of the English influence:  ‘Chitrál, the story of a minor siege’ by Sir George Scott Robertson
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1779 Kingston newspaper advertisement:
"Stationary Store, WILLIAM AIKMAN,
Bookseller & Stationer, King-Street
A GENERAL ASSORTMENT OF THE BEST STATIONARY, viz.Vellum for Drum-heads"
Jamaica Mercury and Kingston Weekly Advertiser, volume 1 |
1781 advertisement regarding a 'Run Away'
RUN AWAY, from the Subscriber, a Sambo man, called BILLY, ALIAS WILLIAM HARE
"He has been for several months past
in the Governor’s service, and absconded when ordered
home.
He blows the French Horn, plays on the Violin, Pipe and Tabor, writes and reads, and is well known
all over the Island, pretends to be free, and has a design
of getting off the Island in some of the ships
going with the
next Country for England.—Captains and Masters of
ships are hereby cautioned against
carrying the above-
mentioned fellow off the Island, as the consequences may
not only be troublesome
but dangerous.—Whoever will secure him in any of the Jails, or deliver him to the subscriber, shall receive
FIVE POUNDS reward and all
reasonable Charges."
SUPPLEMENT TO THE ROYAL GAZETTE.
Kingston, 2d February, 1781 |
1794 advertisement regarding a 'Run Away'
(possible taborer)
New-Ground Estate, St. Ann's, Kingston, Jamaica
"RAN AWAY from the Subscriber, a sambo man named SAM, but calls himself SAM RILEY;
plays very well on the fife and drum, and may endeavour to pass for free; he absconded on the
25th ult. and is supposed gone to one of the towns. A reward of Two Pounds Fifteen Shillings
will be paid by delivering him at the above estate, or to Mr. Thomas Bainbridge, St. Ann's Bay.
"
Royal Gazette, volume 16 |
1826 newspaper report on a dance:
"As it was my business to see every thing that could interest me in Jamaica, I accompanied Mr. Matthews to the Bay,
where one of these entertainments took place in the house of a free mulatto woman The music consisted of three fiddles,
a pipe and taber, and a triangle. The dancers, male and female, acquitted themselves famously well, and performed
country-dances and quadrilles quite as well, if not better, than I had ever seen at a country ball in England.”
Royal Gazette of Jamaica - Saturday 03 June 1826 |
1832 letter to the Editor regarding a visit to Jamaica:
“…we rambled forth, determined to have a dance wherever we might first chance to find a meeting of the kind.
Our ears were soon attracted by the merry tabor and pipe, and, after paying the accustomed admittance money
(generally fifteen shillings), we entered the temporary ball-room…
We returned, made our peace with the ball party, and passed some pleasant hours, by means of the enlivening
tabor and pipe…”
Hereford Times - Saturday 03 November 1832 |
1818 newspaper advertisement for imported drum heads:  Jamaica Royal Gazette of Jamaica - Saturday 17 October 1818 |
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New Zealand more in New Zealand gallery here |
| The pipe and tabor and the pandean pipes are colonial imports to New Zealand from England. |
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USA more in USA gallery here |
Native American:
The bone flute was used to discourage evil spirits in ceremonial use.
A four-hole Eagle bone flute
(instead of the typical five-hole flute)
with its high pitch and functionality with one hand, was used
for medicinal
healing,
“This allowed the healer to have one hand free for passing it over
the body
of the person being healed,”
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London: 1624
“... Then Sir Thomas Gates, being desirous for to be revenged upon the Indians at Kekowhatan, did go thither
by water with a certain number of men and among the rest a taborer with him being landed, he caused the
taborer to play and dance thereby to allure the Indians to come unto him, the which prevailed. And then espying
a fitting opportunity fell in upon them, put five to the sword, wounded many others, ...”
JAMESTOWN: 1609-10: “STARVING TIME” GEORGE PERCY
A TRUE RELATION of the Proceedings and Occurances of Moment which have happened in Virginia from the Time
Sir Thomas Gates shipwrecked upon the Bermudes anno 1609 until my departure out of the Countrywhich was in anno Domini 1612 |
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