The language is Italian, spoken very slowly and clearly. I understood bits, namely that the instrument is used on religious occasions, that it can play in G...
Dear Pete and everyone, Thanks for all the information. Pete, that article is great. It is good to know the background to instruments related to the pipe and...
Dear Pete, I've looked at your photograph of the Rosslyn Chapel sculpture. I think that the one I have is older - they seem to have dusted the sculpture...
Just to pass on a link to English Heritage's image archive http://viewfinder.english-heritage.org.uk/default.aspx - lot of images under a search for 'morris...
I have now uploaded the Lichfield morris tunes for the festival in July onto the taborers Yahoo site. There are four tunes in pdf, midi and mp3 format. get...
A promotional flyer for the Lichfield festival is now available on the website - see http://www.pipeandtabor.org/ It includes enrolling details etc. Have a...
Dear All, I hope that everyone that has tried to email me will accept a public apology from me. My computer has been in bits on my living-room floor. for the...
Our research trip to Northeast Portugal this month into the pipe and tabor tradition turned out to be more successful than we had hoped. In the short time...
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I've just uploaded the Big Dub tune for the International Pipe and Tabor Festival at Lichfield. The tune is The Bower Processional - please note the tune is...
Hi all, I have nearly finished revising the FAQ page, also incorporating suggestions that some of you have sent me - thanks. Can you please send me your...
Here is one found by Steve (in Scotland). http://www.youtube.com/watch?gl=US&feature=channel&v=TljuH5wuYwg There are short snatches of interest at the...
Hi all, Yuri and I have been working on this article to add to The Taborers Society website. It is designed for complete beginners who know nothing about the...
Hi Frances You have been busy! This is a good, serious overview of pipes. There is just one thing I would comment on - from mediaeval times there is any...
Hi Frances, I have copies of an issue of FoMRHI with items by Graham Lyndon-Jones, including 'pipe and tablature' and 'half-holing the tabor pipe' (c. 1998/99)...
I've just come back from seeing the Mary Rose exhibition in south London. Very nicely laid out, and they allowed me to take photographs. I have posted one...
Hi all, I have been in contact with the Mary Rose to see if I have broken copyright by posting that photograph. I expect to hear from them shortly. regards ...
Hi all, The Mary Rose have sent me two photographs for the website. They are in the Mary Rose photos folder. The Mary Rose is a sailing ship that sank just...
Frances, is there another pipe on display, too? As far as I remember, when the first report appeared in the Galpin Soc. J., it stated that there are two of...
Hi Yuri, The exhibition I went to was in south London. I think that they are closing the main exhibition in Portsmouth sometime very soon for updating. They...
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/sci/tech/8117915.stm Scientists in Germany have published details of flutes dating back to the time that modern humans began...
I have to say that I'm far more than sceptical about the whole thing as it stands. For one, the musical scale played on the reconstruction is simply today's...
I can well see how you might think that "A society of early humans 35000 years ago simply could not have had a formal musical structure as advanced as that"...
The performance is the first that really struck me, to tell the truth. It certainly doesn't correspond with the spacing, and I should know, as I made by now...
Hello all, The International Pipe and Tabor festival in Lichfield on 10-12 July will start with a symposium, i.e. a series of short presentations, on the...
I have realized a few videoes about the tabor and pipe in the Maragatería (León - Spain). I hope that you like. El Ti Aquilino Pastor, 100 años de música...
Just a thought as to location of Wade Street CHurch Hall. The entrance is actually in FROG LANE. It's a one way system and the hall is opposite the police...
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