Hawaii - Nose Flute |
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 photo of Maui Nei Native Expeditions courtesy of Tripadvisor |
 smaller pipes give higher notes: auction 1945 |
 decorated nose flutes |
 holding one nostril |
Native American |
 plus beaded bandolier - Nez Perce Museum |
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The bone flute was used to discourage evil spirits in ceremonys.
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,” (source)
Pedro de Castaneda was part of the exploration team of what
is now Arizona
and New Mexico by Coronado in 1540-1542.
He made several references
to flutes in his journal. He writes
of the explorers being greeted"with drums and pipes something
like a flute, of which they have a great many." |
 Arizona, playing for Pascola dance |
These are
the same indigenous
people
that still live in Mexico
who were moved
on in mid
Victorian times. |
 1976 statuette by George Carlson |
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 1989 painting by George Carlson |
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USA early music |
1897 Elizabethan music at Elizabethan Stage Art - review
“The Elizabethan Stage Society of London is devoted to an “educational work,” which seems to be somewhat
whimsical and impractical. It gives occasional performances of Elizabethan plays…The old English music
was
rendered by viol and virginal, pipe and tabor….”
The New York Times 1897-12-11: Vol 47 |
1937 Wellesley News
“Miss Evelyn K. Wells of the department of English
literature
turned back the pages of history to the time
of Queen Elizabeth
in a lecture for 101 students…
In conclusion Miss Wells played
popular tunes on
the pipe and tabor, the instruments of the country
people. When she had finished everyone joined in
Sellengers Round,
an Elizabethan country dance.” |
1939 Wellesley News
“Members of the demonstration group of the English Folk Dance Society of Boston will give a performance
of traditional English
and American dances…In addition,
Miss Evelyn K. Wells
of the English Literature Department
will accompany a group
of morris and sword dances
with the traditional instruments,
the pipe and tabor,
and the recorder. |
1943 Elizabethan Evening
“Elizabethan Evening Will Feature Singing,
Dances, Pipe and Tabor …Plans for this evening,
"in the spirit of a party
in Elizabethan times," have
been made by Miss Wells…
closing the evening
will be a few tunes on
the pipe and tabor by
Miss Wells followed by
a
country dance
for the entire audience….”
Wellesley News, Wellesley College, Wellesley, Mass |
1944 Elizabethan Program Presents Music, Dance,
Popular Centuries Ago
"…The tradition was started eight years ago because
the instructors
of English had wished for some time
that students would realize how
much Elizabethan music
reflected the social life of the times," said
Miss Evelyn Wells, director of the program. The first year Miss Wells
was
the only performer…There will also be some
traditional
tunes
on pipe and tabor. The program
will end with
some Country
dances for as many as will."
Wellesley News, v. 53, no. 10 Wellesley College, Wellesley, Mass |
1959
Radcliffe Concert
The New England Consort will give a program
of medieval and Renaissance music at the Radcliffe
Graduate Center concert Sunday evening at 7 o'clock.
The group includes…
pipe and tabor…”
The Christian Science Monitor 1959-02-27: Vol 51 Iss 78 |
1972 music disc:
Gene Murrow from California plays many instruments
including the pipe and tabor with
the Canterbury
Country Dance Orchestra
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1981concert
“…Calliope gave an entertaining and instructive
concert which endeared them to their audience….
The Italian selections were delightful, exploring
the gamut of instrumental combinations from
a passionate viol duet to the sound of pipe and-tabor…”
Middlebury Campus 1981-05-01 : Volume LXXV, Issue 21 |
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 2005 Dick Bagwell and 'His Majestie's Musicians' |
 2008 The New York Renaissance Band |
 2010 at Pennsic |
 21st century Musica Antiqua |
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 Tom Zajac demonstrating
the pipe and tabor, Philadelphia |
 2011 Stefan Dollak |
 2021 Danielle, part of
Bartholomew Faire |
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playing for dancing |
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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18th century dancing:  |
Wooden Shoe Dance
"Wooden shoes were worn by the peasantry ….
During the throes of the Jacobite threats in the
1710s,
wooden shoes were used as a literary and visual metaphor
for the poverty and "slavery" to France and
Rome that
popular imagination associated with a Catholic succession." ‘Country Dances from Colonial New York’
by Kate Van Winkle Keller
and George A. Fogg, 2000 |
1794 The Country Dance  ‘The New York magazine, or Literary Repository.’ c.1 v.5 pg 278, 1794 |
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1881 The Household Cyclopedia of General Information -
a handbook
of the practical and domestic arts
of America
in Victorian times, regarding sailors:
"... they should be indulged in any innocent amusement that
will keep their
minds as well as bodies in a state of pleasant
activity, and perhaps none is
then more proper than dancing.
This makes a fiddle or a pipe and tabor
desirable acquisitions
on board of every ship bound on a long voyage." |
1982  Southwick Suffield Advertiser 1981-1983 Massachusetts |
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 1962 Nick playing for dancing
North Carolina |
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entertainers |
In 1820 at the Peale Museum in Philadelphia, USA, when:
'Signor Helene and his Pandean Band' performed he did play on his 5 different instruments at the same time.
These included the Italian viola, Pandean pipes, Chinese bells, Turkish cymbals, and tenor drum; during
performances he also imitated a mockingbird and a canary with his voice.
'Building Little Italy, Philadelphia's Italians before Mass Migration' by Richard N. page 70, Juliani Pennsylvania State University Press, |
1890 background music  Reports, Constitution, By-laws and List of Members - Page 12 Century Association (New York, N.Y.). |
 1977 Ernie Fischbach
playing in California |
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 Brad White's instruments
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 2023 Brad White |
 re-enactment 21st century |
 2012 booklet cover
Colonial Williamsburg, Virginia |
 2024 C.A. Wortley, Portland, Maine |
 2024 Mistral the Minstrel
at
Maryland Renaissance Festival |
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folklore |
1826 poem ‘The Death of Rosamond’ ‘Elegant extracts : a copious selection of instructive, moral, and entertaining passages, from the most eminent poets.’ |
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“…The peasants of the most romantic and secluded of our counties would rather spend their holiday
at a dog or a manfight, or in the smoky kitchen of a public-house, than join in the gayest sports of the
loveliest of May mornings…”
‘Atheneum; or, Spirit of the English Magazines’ |
1832 May-day not the same as it once was  The Journal of Health. v.3 |
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1851 May Queen  Gleason's Pictorial Drawing-room Companion Volume 1 page 1 |
1853 May Day  Harper's New Monthly Magazine
Volume 6 page 850 |
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1860 poem
‘The Queen of the May’  ‘The household book of poetry’ by Dana, Charles A. |
1881  The Republican Journal (Belfast, Maine.), March 31, 1881 |
1891  American Monthly Review of Reviews Volume 3 page 547 |
1933 poem  The Deaf-mutes' Journal Vol. 62 No. 44 (Nov. 2, 1933) |
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playing for morris dancers |
Despite early attempts to use the pipe and tabor player to defeat the Native Americans over land, and it's use
in some early 20th century
morris sides, the expansion of morris dancing did not occur until the 1970's. |
1806 newspaper description  Virginia Argus. August 13, 1806 |
1901 story
“…Would I were a morris-dancer now, with practice of this motion” he thought, as the muscles of his legs
became more and more weary ; and he marvelled understandingly at Will Kempe s famous dance to pipe
and tabor from London to Norwich….”
‘CHAPTER XX. HOLYDAY S FURTHER ADVENTURES. in Captain Ravenshaw, or, The maid of Cheapside a romance of Elizabethan
London’ by Stephens, Robert Neilson |
1921-1929  ‘The complete prose of Marianne Moore’ by Moore, Marianne, 1887-1972; Willis, Patricia C, page 213 |
| 1968 program on CBS-TV;" The size of the space available limited the dancers to...six morris men and four girls for the country dances. Music was supplied by Fiddle, Accordion and Pipe and Tabor." |
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Jessica Murrow played the pipe and tabor for The Bouwerie Boys Morris Dancers in New York City, USA, early 21st century. In 1981 she played Oboe, English Horn, Pipes and Tabor in a production of Macbeth on Broadway, USA.
Maggie Erickson also played in the same morris band on the pipe and tabor (1994). |
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 1964 World Fair |
 2003
playing for
morris dancing
Margaret Dale Barrand |
 2006
Dennis Sherman
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 2009 Boston Ale |
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 2009 Jessica Murrow playing
for morris dancing
May Day
New York |
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 2013 playing for
morris dancing in California |
 2013 Ruth Olmsted
Albany, New York |
 2014 Juggler Meadow
Morris Men Amherst, MA |
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 2018 Carla McKenna |
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 Dennis Sharman teaching |
 2023 Margaret Youngberg
Marlboro Morris
and Sword, Massachusetts |
 2024 |
 2025 Marlboro Morris Ale, Vermont |
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illustrations |
 1860's political cartoon |
 1898 advertisement |
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 1910's Christmas Card
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 early 20th century, drum and trumpet |
 1941 film, 'Hellzapoppin' |
 late 20th century |
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1812 patriotic song
'Hull's Incursion into Canada,'
“Come, tune up and summon, with pipe and with tabor,
Sweet Echo to sound a Salute to Our Neighbour,
Whom Nap, the Destroyer of peace and good Order,
Persuaded to make an Attack on our Border….”
A COLLECTION OF THE POEMS OF JONATHAN ODELL WITH A BIOGRAPHICAL
AND CRITICAL INTRODUCTION by JOAN JOHNSTON ANDERSON page 23 |
1814 satire
'A SECOND SALUTE TO NEIGHBOUR MADISON'
“Once more let us summon, with pipe and with tabor,
Sweet Echo, to sound a Salute to our Neighbour,
Whom Nap, the Destroyer of peace and good Order,
Set on to invade our Canadian Border.
Impell'd by the foe to all peace and good Order,
Neighbour Madison rashly invaded our Border….”
A COLLECTION OF THE POEMS OF JONATHAN ODELL WITH A BIOGRAPHICAL
AND CRITICAL INTRODUCTION by JOAN JOHNSTON ANDERSON page 119 |
 ‘The Collected Poems of John Galt,’ 1779-1839, vol II |
1888 Ye Greate Arte Fayre Toronto - ‘The Piper ... Mr Stuart Morrison’  Toronto Daily Mail - Thursday 17 May 1888 |
1901 poem  'The Downing legends, stories in rhyme'
by De Forest, John William |
1901-1942 Toronto textbook poem:
‘The Procession of the Flowers’ by Sydney Dobell
“…As the happy people come
When the war has roll’d away,
With dance and tabor, pipe and drum,
And all make holiday….”
Folder 143 — Textbooks — Margaret Eaton School Toronto 1901-1942 |
1968 poem
“…The lights are dimmed, shocked shades no longer moan,
Stilled the rude roaring of the saxophone;
The song is done, the poet makes his bow,
Then makes an end, cease pipe and tabor now….”
‘Old Times’, January 1968 |
1972 ‘AN ENTERTAINMENT FOR ELIZABETH being A Most Excellent Princely Maske of the Seven
Motions orTerpsichore Unchain‘d’
MUSICIANS OF THE CONSORT included Shelley Gruskin who played Flute, recorder, crumhorn,
pipe & tabor amongst other instruments.
‘An entertainment for Elizabeth : a Renaissance spectacle with singers, dancers and instrumentalists’by University of Toronto. Faculty of Music |
1929 newspaper article  The Carbon chronicle (1929-10-10) |
 1929 Joan Sharp |
 1984 Ontario
Ian Morrison
with Marlboro Men
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 21st century Canada |
 2007 Orange Peel Morris, Ontario |
 Norman Stanfield,
British Columbia, Canada |
2007 Norman Stanfield
“…The Morris Men were performing
during
the fair and met Norman Stanfield,
one of only
a handful of North American
musicians who played the pipe and tabor,
an original Morris dancing accompaniment. Stanfield …
introduced them to Mummer plays….”
‘Canadian Consulting Engineer’, 2007, Vol.48 (6), p.98 |
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 2023 Ellis Montes Montreal
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New Mexico, painting by Bill Baker 
