It is interesting what you are saying about the wear patterns - I hadn't heard about them before, but they sound very similar to the wear patterns I have from...
We are looking at the plans for future Taboring events. 2008 - 13-15 June Gloucester IPATF 2009 - - Link up with Bagpipe Society BLOW-Out - Coincide with...
How about internationalising the event - Spain (Cacares, Arbucies), France, even USA? Gwilym ... From: Stephen Rowley To: tabor_n_pipe@yahoogroups.com Sent:...
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Nov 24, 2007 7:56 am
This week I saw the GIlbert and Sullivan opera Iolanthe for the first time. There, in one of the arias - 'Come bring your pipes and tabors' Taborers are common...
how about attending Dovers games (early June) there's a taborer portrayed on the famous woodcut of the games. opportunity to dress up and a big dub ???? ...
If the current exchange rate trend remains stable or (worse for me) continues, a trip to the US would be comparatively inexpensive for all of you who use the...
... Sorry, I guess I misread Gwilym's post as a suggestion to include international (including US) influences in the programming at the event in England. I...
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Nov 25, 2007 5:43 pm
... I'd be glad to help out with a US gathering. The Northwest (where I live) has several locations such as the Olympic peninsula where inexpensive events can...
There are some seven or eight players here in the region of Virginia I live in alone. Which I suspect is entirely uncommon. Ron Carnegie ... From: Norm Sohl ...
Hi All, I live in Colorado and would be willing to help in a US gathering. In and around Denver there are about 5 players. I have often wondered how how many...
Awesome--where in Virginia do you live? --Norm ... From: tabor_n_pipe@yahoogroups.com [mailto:tabor_n_pipe@yahoogroups.com] On Behalf Of Ron Carnegie Sent:...
Ref the 2008 Gloucester IPATF - I have learned that Edi Be Thou is only known from one MS, which was from the Llanthony Priory, in Gloucester. I suggest that...
I thought Llanthony Priory was in Wales, in the Black Mountains, just a couple of miles west of the boundary with Herefordshire. There certainly is such a...
Williamsburg. The "region" I was referring to as that of the Hampton Roads, though most of the Pipe and Tabor players I know are actually here in town. Ron...
The Gloucestershire Morris Men will be attending the Dover Games this year, with hopefully 2 P&T players (Steve and me). Gwilym ... From: Gillian Guest To:...
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Nov 27, 2007 4:32 pm
Yes, Llanthony Priory is in Wales - and I agree it's a glorious spot. A few hundred years ago, though, the monks thought otherwise (possibly troublesome...
I've been collecting a good deal of Bagpipe repertoire recently and realised that it often plays really well on the tabor pipe, and often works better on the...
Not new, exactly, but... I've been playing some of the "Cantigas de Santa Maria" for some years on tabor pipe. Many of them fit the instrument's range nicely,...
A couple of years ago I decided that it should be possible to have a go at reconstructing Joe Powell's taboring style. After all, we have loads of evidence and...
Ken wrote: Having danced to Bob's playing (as I think, has Steve), I can say it is very effective, loud enough etc. Bob does strap his tabor to his arm with a...
interesting old pipe currently on e-bay. this suggests a date of 1900 for this pipe, but extant pipes by this maker seem to date from the 1920s and 1930s....