Hello, Helen and fellow taborers! I've just discovered the list, and finished reading the archives tonight. What an awsome resource you people are! I hope I...
I came across this paper while searching on our favorite topic, and thought it might be of interest to the group: TWO MEDIEVAL WHISTLES FROM GLOUCESTER ...
Many thanks for the plug Norm. If you want any more information on these instruments please let me know. I will be organising a bone pipe making workshop at...
Richard Sermon
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May 7, 2002 12:07 pm
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Hello Richard, Norm and rest of taborers ¿What kind of bone do you use for your pipes? In Central Spain (Castilla, León, Extremadura) there was a few models...
... I'll let Richard answer this--I've never had the chance to make a 3-hole pipe out of bone (although I've read of surviving instruments made of crane ...
Thanks for the offer, Richard! Nice to have a chance to thank you directly for posting the paper on the web. Certainly beats trying to track down dusty old...
... The oldest possible flute was made out of bear bones, although there is doubt about whether this is a flute or not. There are other prehistoric possible...
Ken Hamilton
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May 8, 2002 6:28 am
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Just curious--have any members been ambitious enough to put together a "Frequently Asked Questions" list for the group? (Not that there are enough of us to...
Hello Ken, Norm, and taborers, it's good to see this current theme, about bone pipes. I've been looking into these quite extensively for one of my major final...
Hello Norm ... Isn´t any special name for bone flutes (as I know). As I said before, these instruments are rare. There was another kind of bone pipe used by...
... No, but a good idea. ... There are a good number of players around, we need to encourage more to join this group. ... Why not come and present it at the...
Stephen Rowley
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May 10, 2002 6:42 am
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Dear carnivore pipers For a couple of future projects a have to use a bone pipe for a particular sound. I found a Sweidish maker who actually makes them in ...
Dear Poul I have now made 4 bone pipes using goose ulna (wing bone) which is naturally hollow, and 1 out of swan (legally obtained!). I have found that raw...
Richard Sermon
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May 10, 2002 10:31 am
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Hello, musical bones fans About the lamb bones treatment, I do the follow: First I boil the bones during a half hour. When they lose the meat and organic...
... during a half hour. When they lose the meat and ... them in a mixed solution with water ... and ammonia (1/4 litre) ... with water. By "oxigened water" do...
davbarnert@...
May 11, 2002 4:09 am
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That came out pretty ugly. Let me try it again: ... By "oxigened water" do you mean what we in the USA call "hydrogen peroxide" (H2O2)? David Barnert ...
davbarnert@...
May 11, 2002 4:16 am
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Hi David ... That´s OK. It has a medical use at home as cleaner of little injuries. I translated it literally from Spanish words (agua oxigenada). Juanma...
Hello taborers In the URL http://www.tamborileros.com/leganes.htm you can see twenty photos about a tamborileros gathering in Leganes, an industrial city very...
Dear Juanma, I enjoyed looking at your photographs. I looked and looked for woment playing the pipe and tabor but I could not see any. Do women only dance...
Hello Frances In the past were as you say: one man played pipe and tabor and couples formed by men and women danced. Traditionally in the villages each genre...
My wife has just returned from Norway. She had two tabor sightings (or nearly)... 1) On the new doors of the Cathedral at Trondheim. ( no information about ...
Stephen Rowley
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Jun 24, 2002 10:30 pm
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... Spanish ... about "Cantigas de ... is ... Juanma actually wrote in the beginning of May, so this is not current. But then we haven't had much traffic on...
Hello Dennis As you write in your message, the CD is amazing. A good representation of the major part of the different three hole pipes of Spain (and tabors)...
Interesting how things circle back to where they started. Juanma posted, mentioning a new CD featuring pipe and tabor. I tracked it down, and got it. (It's...
Hello Dennis and rest of taborers There is a Spanish proverb about the difficult of our language that says: "We have one name for many things and many names...
... There are more sayings, songs and stories about that theme (and others). I´ll look for them. But the old taborers and folk musicians don´t knew the...
In the 1950's people were recovering from the war and wanted to forget all the old, dark past. They wanted modern, light houses and modern technology and...
... I would like to explain that the major part of the sayings and "poetry" about p&t in west Spain was collected from the old taborers by Alberto Jambrina and...
Hi, I just thought I'd pass on the website address where there are some photos of the bone flutes that I've been making. http://www.lgu.ac.uk/mit/gallery.html ...
