Greetings to all who enjoy the tabor and tabor pipes! Let's talk about the music and the fun and how shrill these things are when we practice... Mary...
MGranuaile@...
Feb 4, 2000 3:15 am
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Hello! I'm a basque txistu&txirula player. Txistu&txirula are also flutes with 3 holes, and I think that they are very similar to your tabor pipes. Are tabor...
Fifeton
fifeton@...
Apr 16, 2000 7:18 am
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Hello and welcome, Fifeton! I've never heard of those pipes before. I would suppose that, with only 3 holes, they would have to be played in a similar manner...
MGranuaile@...
Apr 16, 2000 2:43 pm
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Hi! I've visited the link and the instruments are very similar. You can visit a link about txistu in http://www.txistulari.com It's in Basque and Spanish. ...
fifeton@...
Apr 17, 2000 6:20 am
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Thanks for the site! How fascinating! Do you play these with one hand while playing another instrument or drum- like with tabor pipes? Mary...
MGranuaile@...
Apr 17, 2000 2:44 pm
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We usually play it with a drum instrument called "tamboril","danbolin" or "ttun-ttun". Txistu is played with the tamboril (simple drum) and txirula is played...
fifeton@...
Apr 18, 2000 6:14 am
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Hi, Fifeton! The tabor pipes are usually played with a drum called a tabor. This is often seen in medieval pictures as either a small drum suspended from the ...
MGranuaile@...
Apr 18, 2000 1:41 pm
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Hi! Welcome to tabor_n_pipe! What do you play? I play susato tabor pipes in various keys- sometimes with drum and sometimes with harp. I use them in a...
MGranuaile@...
Oct 5, 2000 10:25 pm
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Welcome, bilbar@.... I seem to have missed your intro message, though. Mary, Did you say you play harp at the same time as pipe, now? Is that using...
Ken Hamilton
K.C.Hamilton1@...
Oct 6, 2000 8:31 am
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Not that clever, Ken. :) I play harp (mostly chords) with one hand while playing the pipe with the other. (Although coordination was a bit tough at first.)...
MGranuaile@...
Oct 6, 2000 12:38 pm
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Hi Mary and everyone else I play various instruments,but in the tabor pipe line I play a small Generation "D" plus a few others which I have made (out of...
Bill Anderson/Barb Sc...
bilbar@...
Oct 6, 2000 1:11 pm
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Hi, Bill! Yeah, there's nothing like that 13th C. PVC. Do they even make it as well these days? Your pipes sound interesting. What kind of music do you ...
MGranuaile@...
Oct 6, 2000 1:40 pm
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On Sat, 07 Oct 2000 00:15:16 +1000 Bill Anderson/Barb Scott ... How is the sound produced, without a fipple? What is on the end of the pipe? I'm sorry if that...
Ken Hamilton
K.C.Hamilton1@...
Oct 6, 2000 2:01 pm
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... As far as I know, Alba have only CDs out. I call them LPs in the spirit of anachronism, and because I am the only person I know who still has a functioning...
Ken Hamilton
K.C.Hamilton1@...
Oct 6, 2000 2:08 pm
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Short notice, I know, but it is the Festa del Flabiol, in Barcelona this weekend. ... "The magnetician had some of his instruments in working order for a short...
Ken Hamilton
K.C.Hamilton1@...
Oct 6, 2000 2:10 pm
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Hi Mary, I'm currently playing in a group playing a mixture of Early,Classical Turkish/Arabic, Irish traditional,Balkan dance and some original music.Over the...
Bill Anderson/Barb Sc...
bilbar@...
Oct 6, 2000 2:37 pm
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Actually, I and another band member have working turntables, (that's 2 more people in the world), but I prefer CD's just for convenience. Mary...
MGranuaile@...
Oct 6, 2000 3:36 pm
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Hi Ken Here are the dimensions of my fippleless 3-holed pipes. Pipe in "D major" Total length = 620mm, Internal diameter = 17mm, Top to centre of 1st (thumb)...
Bill Anderson/Barb Sc...
bilbar@...
Oct 7, 2000 3:21 pm
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You guys are so creative! What fun! Mary...
MGranuaile@...
Oct 7, 2000 3:24 pm
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On Sun, 08 Oct 2000 02:25:32 +1000 Bill Anderson/Barb Scott ... Txistu, for the alto (G), and txirula for the soprano (D, I think, but it could be C. I suspect...
Ken Hamilton
K.C.Hamilton1@...
Oct 9, 2000 8:35 am
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Hello! I'm basque and play txistu and txirula, and I can help you with this. Txistu's key is F# and txirula is C (these are traditional keys) but txistu can...
fifeton@...
Oct 9, 2000 8:44 am
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You can see a txistu description here: http://www.txistulari.com/whatis.htm...
fifeton@...
Oct 9, 2000 8:52 am
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... Yes. Isn't that the site run by Felix? It is in English (although the bits in Basque are worth looking through for the sculpture and iconography). F# for a...
Ken Hamilton
K.C.Hamilton1@...
Oct 9, 2000 9:21 am
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Hi Ken I don't think making the bore narrower would make a huge difference to the dimensions as I think the length of the air column is the main factor in...
Bill Anderson/Barb Sc...
bilbar@...
Oct 9, 2000 2:04 pm
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Check out the pito maragato and the gaitas charra y extremeña on this page. Mary <A HREF="http://leo.worldonline.es/juanmari/">Click here: "Instrumentos ...
MGranuaile@...
Oct 12, 2000 2:54 am
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Hi tootlers I've just heard of a giant contrabass tabor pipe from Slovakia called the fujara.( !.8 - 2 metres long ! ) Has anybody here got any information on...
Bill Anderson/Barb Sc...
bilbar@...
Oct 26, 2000 1:14 pm
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On Fri, 27 Oct 2000 00:19:10 +1000 Bill Anderson/Barb Scott ... Tootlers? _Tootlers_? Taborers, please! ... Wow! Where did you encounter this fiendish device? ...
Ken Hamilton
K.C.Hamilton1@...
Oct 26, 2000 2:04 pm
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Hi Ken and Taborers !!! I heard about it on the flutetech list in a posting by Thomas Hastay. I wrote and asked him about it and he gave me this link ...
Bill Anderson/Barb Sc...
bilbar@...
Oct 26, 2000 2:38 pm
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More on fujaras. According to Poul Hoxbro, "it is an impressive instrument with a haunting sound and a very heavy playing technique (T-bigS-T)." Below is what...
Ken Hamilton
K.C.Hamilton1@...
Oct 30, 2000 12:07 pm
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Ken has just told me about this discussion list. I live in the Cotswold region of England which is the part of the country where the tradition just about...
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