There's an unfeasibly big tabor in one of Heironymous Bosch's pictures, being
held by a damned soul, containing another damned soul, and beaten by a demon. He
is beating the snare side with one stick. You have to look fairly carefully for
the pipe, but it is not being played by the demon. Not to put too fine a point
on it, the damned soul holding the tabor has no clothes on, so I'll leave you to
guess where the pipe is!
Can't remember the name of the picture off hand. It's one part fo a tryptych.
Had to take it off the Taborers Website because it used too much bandwidth (it
was the most looked at file by a healthy margin).
Ken

> from: =?iso-8859-1?q?Juanma_S=E1nchez?= <tradiberia@...>
> date: Thu, 12 Jun 2003 15:49:53
> to: tabor_n_pipe@yahoogroups.com
> subject: Re: [tabor_n_pipe] A C.XVII Spanish p&t drawing
>
> Hi taborers!
>
> In http://www.tamborileros.com/entrada.jpg you can see a drawing from
> Madrid Council Archives about a "Tarasca". "Tarasca" was a monster
> (usually a big snake or dragon) that people used in the processions
> of Corpus Christi (or Pentecostes) Feast. This drawing is dated in
> 1672, and show us the Tarasca of that year. Nowadays Corpus Christi
> feasts are associated with p&t music, beasts and ritual dances in
> many villages of Spain. Also, the rich Catalonian bestiary is a part
> of this tradition.
> I like this drawing because it show us an unusual stick (like a big
> drum stick) and a big tabor... this is very unusual in Spanish p&t
> Iconography... It reminds me Frances Tucker's tabor, giving a
> powerous bass beating!
> As you can see, the drawing is used as a ticket of an exhibition
> about "Theater and festivities during the Spanish Golden Age in
> Hapsburg Europe", in Seville. Phil Day sent me it last monday from
> the (very) hot Spanish South.
>
> Richard, the Exeter taborer is wonderful!... I´m an Iconography fan!
>
> Vicky, I hope you enjoy a lot in St. Chartier meeting... Xabier
> Bosch, the Neil´s bagpipe maker will be there... And Blowzabella
> performing at stage! I haven´t enough words...
>
> Best regards,
> Juanma Sánchez - Madrid
> http://www.tamborileros.com
>
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