the Pipe and Tabor compendium

the Pipe and Tabor compendium

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horn and tabor

Many of the earliest images show the horn and tabor: a horn is usually played with the hand underneath holding the horn up.

ByzantineByzantium 11th century11th century, stone carving Cambodia 11301130 St Albans, England
1200 horn and bell1200-1225 horn and bell
East Midlands, England		 1325-1350 horn and bell
Cologne, Germany		    
12501250 Funerary stone monument France
Italy1250-1275 Italy 211v

13th century Turkey13th century Aksaray or Kayser, Turkey

 12871287 Padua Italy 204v
1290-13101290-1310 a devil plays horn and drum, Lorraine, France 018r
© Bodleian Libraries, University of Oxford

1290-13101290-1310 Lorraine, France 165r trumpet and tabor
© Bodleian Libraries, University of Oxford
after 1280after 1280, Library Portal, Rouen Cathedral, France
13th century France13th century, a devil / fool plays horn and drum France
14181418 Paris, France 175r

15th century double horn15th century double horn Switzerland [Ed there are many manuscripts etc with a similar image]

14951517 a devil plays horn and drum
Bern Minster, Switzerland
 
15691569 England

16851685 Spain on mythical Tarasca
17291729 Germany 18211821 caricature of Rossini, France
19381938 parade, Los Angeles, USA
20062006 horn and tabor in a parade in Bolivia page 48
2019 Manchester
 2019 Manchester
2019 Manchester, England
horn and harp medievalmedieval stone carving
horn and harp, Auvergne, France 		  More details of horn and tabor images here in a paper
by TERESA SOLER and RAFEL MITJANS		  
 

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