Hawaii - Nose Flute |
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photo of Maui Nei Native Expeditions courtesy of Tripadvisor |
smaller pipes give higher notes: auction 1945 |
decorated nose flutes |
holding one nostril |
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Native American |
plus beaded bandolier - Nez Perce Museum |
The bone flute was used to discourage evil spirits in ceremonial use.
A four-hole Eagle bone flute (instead of the typical five-hole flute)
with its high pitch and functionality with one hand, was used for medicinal
healing,
“This allowed the healer to have one hand free for passing it ove
r the body of the person being healed,” (source) |
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Arizona, playing for Pascola dance |
These are
the same indigenous people that still live in Mexico
who were moved on in mid Victorian times. |
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painting by Bill Baker |
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USA early music |
1897 Elizabethan music at Elizabethan Stage Art - review
“The Elizabethan Stage Society of London is devoted to an “educational work,” which seems to be somewhat
whimsical and impractical. It gives occasional performances of Elizabethan plays…The old English music was
rendered by viol and virginal, pipe and tabor….”
The New York Times 1897-12-11: Vol 47 |
1937 Wellesley News
“Miss Evelyn K. Wells of the department of English literature
turned back the pages of history to the time of Queen Elizabeth
in a lecture for 101 students…In conclusion Miss Wells played
popular tunes on the pipe and tabor, the instruments of the country
people. When she had finished everyone joined in Sellengers Round,
an Elizabethan country dance.” |
1939 Wellesley News
“Members of the demonstration group of the English Folk Dance Society of Boston will give a performance of traditional English
and American dances…In addition, Miss Evelyn K. Wells
of the English Literature Department will accompany a group
of morris and sword dances with the traditional instruments,
the pipe and tabor, and the recorder. |
1943 Elizabethan Evening
“Elizabethan Evening Will Feature Singing,
Dances, Pipe and Tabor
…Plans for this evening, "in the spirit of a party
in Elizabethan times," have been made by Miss Wells…closing the evening will be a few tunes on the pipe and tabor by Miss Wells followed by
a country dance for the entire audience….”
Wellesley News, Wellesley College, Wellesley, Mass |
1944 Elizabethan Program Presents Music, Dance, Popular Centuries Ago
"…The tradition was started eight years ago because
the instructors
of English had wished for some time
that students would realize how
much Elizabethan music
reflected the social life of the times," said
Miss Evelyn Wells, director of the program. The first year Miss Wells
was the only performer…There will also be some traditional tunes
on
pipe and tabor. The program will end with some Country
dances for as many as will."
Wellesley News, v. 53, no. 10 Wellesley College, Wellesley, Mass |
1959
Radcliffe Concert
The New England Consort will give a program of medieval and Renaissance music at the Radcliffe Graduate Center concert Sunday evening at 7 o'clock.
The group includes… pipe and tabor…”
The Christian Science Monitor 1959-02-27: Vol 51 Iss 78 |
1972 music disc
Gene Murrow from California plays many instruments including the
pipe and tabor with
the Canterbury Country Dance Orchestra
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1981concert
“…Calliope gave an entertaining and instructive concert which endeared them to their audience….The Italian selections were delightful, exploring the gamut of instrumental combinations from a passionate viol duet to the sound of pipe and-tabor…”
Middlebury Campus 1981-05-01 : Volume LXXV, Issue 21 |
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player |
2005 Dick Bagwell and 'His Majestie's Musicians' |
2008 The New York Renaissance Band |
2010 at Pennsic |
21st century Musica Antiqua |
John Tyson, New England |
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playing for dancing |
London: 1624
“... Then Sir Thomas Gates, being desirous for to be revenged upon the Indians at Kekowhatan, did go thither
by water with a certain number of men and among the rest a taborer with him being landed, he caused the
taborer to play and dance thereby to allure the Indians to come unto him, the which prevailed. And then espying
a fitting opportunity fell in upon them, put five to the sword, wounded many others, ...”
JAMESTOWN: 1609-10: “STARVING TIME” GEORGE PERCY_
A TRUE RELATION of the Proceedings and Occurances of Moment which have happened in Virginia from the Time
Sir Thomas Gates shipwrecked upon the Bermudes anno 1609 until my departure out of the Countrywhich was in anno Domini 1612 |
18th century dancing: |
Wooden Shoe Dance
"Wooden shoes were worn by the peasantry ….
During the throes of the Jacobite threats in the
1710s,
wooden shoes were used as a literary and visual metaphor
for the poverty and "slavery" to France and
Rome that
popular imagination associated with a Catholic succession."
‘Country Dances from Colonial New York’ by Kate Van Winkle Keller
and George A. Fogg, 2000
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1794 The Country Dance‘The New York magazine, or Literary Repository.’ c.1 v.5 pg 278, 1794 |
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song for dancing ‘Country Dances from Colonial New York’ by Kate Van Winkle Keller
and George A. Fogg, 2000 |
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playing for a couple dancing [drum page 4]
early Victorian |
1881 The Household Cyclopedia of General Information - a handbook
of the practical and domestic arts
of America in Victorian times, regarding sailors:
"... they should be indulged in any innocent amusement that will keep their
minds as well as bodies in a state of pleasant activity, and perhaps none is
then more proper than dancing. This makes a fiddle or a pipe and tabor
desirable acquisitions on board of every ship bound on a long voyage." |
1982 Southwick Suffield Advertiser 1981-1983 Massachusetts |
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1962 Nick playing for dancing,
North Carolina |
1977 Ernie Fischbach
playing in California |
Brad White |
2023 Brad White |
In 1820 at the Peale Museum in Philadelphia, USA, when:
'Signor Helene and his Pandean Band' performed he did play on his 5 different instruments at the same time.
These included the Italian viola, Pandean pipes, Chinese bells, Turkish cymbals, and tenor drum; during
performances he also imitated a mockingbird and a canary with his voice.
'Building Little Italy, Philadelphia's Italians before Mass Migration' by Richard N. page 70, Juliani Pennsylvania State University Press, |
1890 background music Reports, Constitution, By-laws and List of Members - Page 12 Century Association (New York, N.Y.). |
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folklore |
1826 poem ‘The Death of Rosamond’‘Elegant extracts : a copious selection of instructive, moral, and entertaining passages, from the most eminent poets.’ |
1829 May Day
“…The peasants of the most romantic and secluded of our counties would rather spend their holiday
at a dog or a manfight, or in the smoky kitchen of a public-house, than join in the gayest sports of the
loveliest of May mornings…”
‘Atheneum; or, Spirit of the English Magazines’ |
1832 May-day not the same as it once was The Journal of Health. v.3 |
1851 May Queen Gleason's Pictorial Drawing-room Companion Volume 1 page 1 |
1853 May Day Harper's New Monthly Magazine
Volume 6 page 850 |
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1860 poem
‘The Queen of the May’‘The household book of poetry’ by Dana, Charles A. |
1891 American Monthly Review of Reviews Volume 3 page 547 |
1933 poem The Deaf-mutes' Journal Vol. 62 No. 44 (Nov. 2, 1933) |
1881 The Republican Journal (Belfast, Maine.), March 31, 1881 |
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USA playing for morris dancers |
Despite early attempts to use the pipe and tabor player to defeat the Native Americans over land, and some early 20th century
morris sides, the expansion of morris dancing did not occur until the 1970's. |
1901 story
“…Would I were a morris-dancer now, with practice of this motion” he thought, as the muscles of his legs
became more and more weary ; and he marvelled understandingly at Will Kempe s famous dance to pipe
and tabor from London to Norwich….”
‘CHAPTER XX. HOLYDAY S FURTHER ADVENTURES. in Captain Ravenshaw, or, The maid of Cheapside a romance of Elizabethan
London’ by Stephens, Robert Neilson |
1968 program on CBS-TV;" The size of the space available limited the dancers to...six morris men and four girls for the country dances. Music was supplied by Fiddle, Accordion and Pipe and Tabor." |
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Jessica Murrow played the pipe and tabor for The Bouwerie Boys Morris Dancers in New York City, USA, early 21st century. In 1981 she played Oboe, English Horn, Pipes and Tabor in a production of Macbeth on Broadway, USA.
Maggie Erickson also played in the same morris band on the pipe and tabor (1994). |
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1964 World Fair |
2003 playing for
morris dancing
Margaret Dale Barrand |
2006
Dennis Sherman |
2009 Boston Ale |
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2009 Boston Ale |
2009 Jessica Murrow playing
for morris dancing,
May Day
New York |
Roger Cartwright, Amherst, Massachusetts, died 2011 |
2013 playing for
morris dancing in California |
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2018 Carla McKenna |
2021 Ron Carnegie Jamestown,Virginia |
Dennis Sharman teaching |
2023 Ellis Montes |
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illustrations |
1860's political cartoon |
1898 advertisement |
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1910's Christmas Card |
early 20th century, drum and trumpet |
late 20th century |
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Canada |
1812 - patriotic song.
'Hull's Incursion into Canada,'
“Come, tune up and summon, with pipe and with tabor,
Sweet Echo to sound a Salute to Our Neighbour,
Whom Nap, the Destroyer of peace and good Order,
Persuaded to make an Attack on our Border….”
A COLLECTION OF THE POEMS OF JONATHAN ODELL WITH A BIOGRAPHICAL
AND CRITICAL INTRODUCTION by JOAN JOHNSTON ANDERSON page 23
1814 - satire.
'A SECOND SALUTE TO NEIGHBOUR MADISON'
“Once more let us summon, with pipe and with tabor,
Sweet Echo, to sound a Salute to our Neighbour,
Whom Nap, the Destroyer of peace and good Order,
Set on to invade our Canadian Border.
Impell'd by the foe to all peace and good Order,
Neighbour Madison rashly invaded our Border….”
A COLLECTION OF THE POEMS OF JONATHAN ODELL WITH A BIOGRAPHICAL
AND CRITICAL INTRODUCTION by JOAN JOHNSTON ANDERSON page 119 |
‘The Collected Poems of John Galt,’ 1779-1839, vol II |
1888 Ye Greate Arte Fayre Toronto - ‘The Piper ... Mr Stuart Morrison’ Toronto Daily Mail - Thursday 17 May 1888 |
1901 poem 'The Downing legends, stories in rhyme'
by De Forest, John William |
1901-1942 Toronto textbook poem:
‘The Procession of the Flowers’ by Sydney Dobell
“…As the happy people come
When the war has roll’d away,
With dance and tabor, pipe and drum,
And all make holiday….”
Folder 143 — Textbooks — Margaret Eaton School Toronto 1901-1942 |
1968 poem
“…The lights are dimmed, shocked shades no longer moan,
Stilled the rude roaring of the saxophone;
The song is done, the poet makes his bow,
Then makes an end, cease pipe and tabor now….”
‘Old Times’, January 1968 |
1972 ‘AN ENTERTAINMENT FOR ELIZABETH being A Most Excellent Princely Maske of the Seven
Motions orTerpsichore Unchain‘d’
MUSICIANS OF THE CONSORT included Shelley Gruskin who played Flute, recorder, crumhorn,
pipe & tabor amongst other instruments.
‘An entertainment for Elizabeth : a Renaissance spectacle with singers, dancers and instrumentalists’by University of Toronto. Faculty of Music |
1929 newspaper article The Carbon chronicle (1929-10-10) |
1929 Joan Sharp |
1984 Ontario
Ian Morrison
with Marlboro Men
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21st century Canada |
2007 Orange Peel Morris, Ontario |
Norman Stanfield,
British Columbia, Canada |
2007 Norman Stanfield
“…The Morris Men were performing during the fair and met Norman Stanfield, one of only a handful of North American musicians who played the pipe and tabor, an original Morris dancing accompaniment. Stanfield … introduced them to Mummer plays….”
‘Canadian Consulting Engineer’, 2007, Vol.48 (6), p.98 |
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