Hi friends! From october 29th to 31st october will take place the XXIst Festa del Flabiol in Arbucies (Catalonia). It's an interessting meeting for flabiol...
Jim Jones, the tabor pipe maker, has died. As far as I can make out, he died on Monday 1st August, but the news has been slow to get about, because the Forest...
David, Thank you for the information re: Jim Jones. I was sorry to hear of his death, even though I never knew him, and have actually only very recently even...
Very sad to hear of Jim's death. I only met him a couple of times in the early 1970s but I was struck as much by his courteous and patient demeanour as by his...
Heya, I stumbled across this group, the phrase "where to find other crazy people" seemed to apply to me. After a summer gig in the south of France several...
Hi Nick Welcome to the group. The historic tuning TTS is also called the English Tuning - being the predominant tuning found here. Richard Sermon presented a...
... As an American who plays Pipe & Tabor primarily for Morris Dancing, I use the TTS arrangement (a Susato D whistle for playing outdoors, and one in low F...
davbarnert@...
Sep 9, 2005 2:50 am
749
Taborers and Taboritzas (accepted fem. form?), What a wonderful forum initiated by Nick Blanton! I'm intrigued not only by the variety of players out there...
Dear Nick Blanton Some weeks ago I played at the first international meeting of tambourinaires (Provencal pipe and tabor players) in Arles at the Festival de...
Poul, Hope all is well with yourself and co. Have you got source material for your crane bone pipes? (Published measurements, fipple details etc.?) I've got a...
To my knowledge, relatively little exists by way of published recordings of one-hand flute and string drum. I can recommend an exxtra-ordinary disc... El...
Whilst I think about it, there is another interesting pipe and tabor CD in the Saga series. WKPD-10/2029 Vol 12 Las Hurdes No string drums here, but lots of...
Dear Ken You won't believe it, but we are actully moving right at the moment, so all my books are in boxes - I sometimes wish I could say about the rest of my...
Hi , this is Anna, a catalan flabiol player. There is another interesting saga, Fonoteca de la Generalitat de Catalunnya. There are two CD exclusively played...
Hi all, talking about crane bone flutes..... I've been visiting various museums recently, specifically to examine bone flutes, and have come across a few that...
Anna, This last year I was able to visit my cousin in Barcelona, and watched a sardana in the big plaza in front of the cathedral. Is this ensemble of brass...
I will look for those recordings, thanks Steve. There is a band out of Pau, called Adarron, which has a nice CD called Er Naveth. The music is mostly dances,...
Helen ... Why am I reminded of coconuts? Sorry. David Barnert Albany NY [Non-text portions of this message have been removed]...
davbarnert@...
Sep 13, 2005 1:48 pm
761
... It all depends upon the bore of the instrument. Narrower bore will overblow more easily. The late Jim Jones optimised these for different pitch pipes, to...
On the subject of pipe and tabor in the Balearic islands, there is an excellent CD of the Xeremies de San Roca (Flabiol and Bagpipe) 'Trempats' Ona Digital...
Hi all, thanks for the replies to the pipers in heaven query. I have been away at the festa major of Vilanova, just south of Barcelona. We had a fabulous...
Dear Helen Did you, from your research, get any idea if the crane pipes had common caractaristics like no fipple, hole at the end or no holes. That is to say:...
Hello everybody, Since 1998 it exists a band of flabiols called Els Francolins. It has 8 flabiol players with a brass section with 2 trupets, 1 trombone and 1 ...
Thanks Angel. You have a good memory. Els Francolins is the group set up by Joan Moliner. He has done a lot of work on getting young people involved in the...
A CD that I listen to frequently is one of a series of Catalan dance music:- Ball amb Flabiol. It features two masters of the instrument:- Josep Verdaguer...
Steve, Are you able to read "Mustime" or "Finale" archives? Otherwise, wich format do you prefer? Does anybody else want to receive that files? Angel ... dance...
