Well the book has arrived. This has led to more questions! Do tabor drums have snares? If so batter head or snare head (top or bottom)? I am looking at making...
Well, nobody seems to have picked this up so I will ... Yes, usually tabors have snares, and on the batter head. Some makers use gut, others use string. A...
... As I understand it, period iconography (paintings) clearly show tabors with snares on the upper surface. We can't see the lower surface, so we don't know...
davbarnert@...
Apr 3, 2007 4:51 pm
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Yes, that's true. And Arbeau says in "Orchesography" that the type of tabor he describes has a snare on each head. On the other hand, the tabor in Praetorius's...
The snares are very important, giving a distinctive rattle that sustains after the beat. Some traditions this is very prominent - like the galoubet et...
You might like to 'listen again' to The Early Music Show on BBC Radio 3:- http://www.bbc.co.uk/radio3/earlymusicshow/pip/wvc2u/ Lucy Skeaping is taught early...
There's an interesting discussion going on at the Morris Dance Discussion List (http://web.syr.edu/~hytelnet/mddl/ and follow links to "Archives") about...
davbarnert@...
May 2, 2007 3:15 am
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... Nothing on-line as far as I know. If you can find them, they feature on two of the old Morris Ring cassettes, sponsored by the Letchworth Morris Men (now...
Hello Dave Bert Cleaver is definitely in the Schofield style. I don't know of any on-line sound files. Letchworth Morris produced a series of tapes which...
... Probably inadvisable - I believe copyright still exists on these recordings. ... The Ring is working on the LMM tapes. Catalunya is well organised in this...
I recently found my copy of Graham Lyndon-Jones' article about (james) Powell, taborer for Bucknell morris., but I was surprised to read that he played with a...
The beater sounds like a 'tipper' used on a bodhran. Reynold ... From: pete To: tabor_n_pipe@yahoogroups.com Sent: Wednesday, May 02, 2007 12:23 PM Subject:...
Thanks, all, for your responses. David Barnert Albany NY ... From: steve@... To: tabor_n_pipe@yahoogroups.com Sent: Wed, 2 May 2007 6:53 AM Subject:...
davbarnert@...
May 2, 2007 1:00 pm
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I have a beater based upon the Bucknell and Fieldtown designs. Shorter than a modern drumstick, but not like a bodran tipper (which they predate by many...
You wrote: I recently found my copy of Graham Lyndon-Jones' article about (james) Powell, taborer for Bucknell morris., but I was surprised to read that he...
My tabor came with a pair of modern drum sticks. I set one aside and shortened the other by a few inches and covered the business end in cloth tape. It worked...
davbarnert@...
May 2, 2007 1:57 pm
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Steve, you wrote: It is clear from the wear patterns on both beater and tabor, that Powell was striking the drum head with the tip of the beater, but the ...
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...
One of the workshops at the Pipe and Tabor festival this year (St Albans 20 - 22 July) is Bob Tyson. Bob does in fact play for morris using a double-ended...
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...
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 load of...
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....
... notes of a scale in ... produced, but I do not ... David Barnert Albany NY ... From: gillian.guest@... To: tabor_n_pipe@yahoogroups.com Sent:...
davbarnert@...
May 11, 2007 5:54 pm
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You might also want to look at http://www.oldmusicalinstruments.co.uk/instruments/instrument_list.php?c at=DF [I Googled "Louis & co" London] pete ... From:...
I ended up with this pipe ... Never bought anything on eBay, and in a few moments of foolishness, bought this one. It arrived today. As described, it has a...
If the photo of the instrument at Tony Bingham's site is representative of what you've bought, you should be able to get more than the lowest 3 notes in D. The...
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