Hello Jan

All of my tabors with snares have a hole and peg to tension the snare -
usually one or two gut snares.

The most effective snare I have is on a folk tabor from La Gomera in the
Canary Islands. This has a single strand of rather 'kinky' wire - a bit
like picture wire that has been bent and generally mangled - it has a great
rattle.

Marcus Music is making a number of tabors to patterns from my collection,
including the English, Basque and Mallorcan.

Steve


At 08:50 24/06/2005, Jan Winter wrote:
>Hi everybody,
>Angel's nice introduction made me remember that I did not take time
>to introduce myself when I joined the list some time ago. so here it is:
>I'm a journalist and musician living in Sweden and have had a
>somewhat unstable relation to the pipe and tabor for many many years.
>But after joining a group in which we play the Playford edition
>english country dances (see link below), relations have become much
>better. Also a concert with Poul Høxbro made me rethink the whole
>idea of pipe-n-taboring. I mostly play drone instruments like
>bagpipes, hurdy gurdies, nyckelharpas and such, but I will use this
>summer to work on my in spe taboring skills.
>
>Enough of me. Here's my question: I recently bought a tabor from the
>English Early music shop in Bradford. It's not a bad instrument at
>all but lacks a snare which I will add by myself. I dont want to make
>holes in the shell for a peg so I'm wondering if someone on the list
>has any suggestion for attaching the gut string and being able to
>tighten/loosen it in some other convenient way. There are obvious
>solutions to this problem, but I'm looking for something "elegant".
>Also, I'm curious If those of you that are indeed using snare strings
>on your tabors use one string or many, as I have seen somewhere. And
>If you use snarees on boith sides or only on one.
>
>regards to you all and Glad midsommar (happy midsummer's day)!
>/JanW
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