Ken

Sorry about the sloppy geography, Mexico and its Voladores are of course in
North America. The question should have been whether the 1803 poem is the
earliest reference to pipe and tabor in the USA or Canada (including Alaska and
Quebec).

Regards

Richard


--- On Sat, 1/11/08, KENNETH HAMILTON <KenHamilton@...> wrote:

> From: KENNETH HAMILTON <KenHamilton@...>
> Subject: Re: [tabor_n_pipe] Barcelona, Albany, and Pinkster Festivals
> To: tabor_n_pipe@yahoogroups.com
> Date: Saturday, 1 November, 2008, 7:37 PM
> There is a pipe and tabor tradition in Mexico (which is, for
> the pedantic, in North America, according to my Mexican
> amigo) - musicians for the voladores play a small tabor and
> pipe
> (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Danza_de_los_Voladores_de_Papantla),
> but I guess you are maybe separating the US and Canada from
> Central and Southern America?
>
> Ken
>
>
> --- On Sat, 1/11/08, davbarnert@...
> <davbarnert@...> wrote:
>
> > From: davbarnert@... <davbarnert@...>
> > Subject: [tabor_n_pipe] Barcelona, Albany, and
> Pinkster Festivals
> > To: tabor_n_pipe@yahoogroups.com
> > Date: Saturday, 1 November, 2008, 1:24 PM
> > Richard wrote:
> >
> > > Ken, Helen and David [different David --DB]
> > >
> > > Thanks for the refs and comments on the Barcelona
> > Haggadah
> > > illustration.
> > >
> > > Whilst googling this and other things I also
> found the
> > following
> > > ref to pipe and tabor in Albany, New York in
> 1803:
> > >
> > > http://shlomosez.blogspot.com/
> > >
> > > Is this the earliest mention of pipe and tabor in
> > North America?
> > >
> > > Richard
> >
> > Curious coincidence: I live in Albany and perform
> annually
> > on the
> > pipe and tabor (among other instruments with my morris
> > dancers) at
> > the Pinksterfest (mentioned in the 1803 source linked
> > above), but
> > right now I am on vacation in Barcelona.
> >
> > I have no idea if there are earlier North American
> > references.
> >
> > David Barnert
> > <davbarnert@...>
> > Albany NY
> >
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