1775 story ‘CUPID and HYMEN.’
“AS the little amorous Deity was one day winging his way over a village in Arcadia, he was drawn by the sweet
sound of the pipe and tabor, to descend and see what was the matter…”

PENNSYLVANIA MAGAZINE: or, American Monthly Museum 1775, Vol.1, p.158

1790 'The Rememberancer' in The Colonial Music Institute, Annapolis, Maryland

"To sheep-shear, my boys! pipe and tabor strike up"

1794

“Hark! the sound of the Pipe and tabor evinces the soul of harmony;”

‘An ADDRESS delivered at St. Paul's Church, (by request of the Graduates) at the late Medical
Commencement, being the first under Columbia College.’ by William Pitt Smith

The New York Magazine; or Literary Repository 1794-04: Vol 5 Iss 4

1797 story 'ON THE MISERIES OF WAR.'
The following very affecting history exemplifying one of the countles miseries of war, is extracted from Mrs Robinson's
very interesting well written novel of Anoelinn…

"We were roused by the pipe and tabor, which were carried before the dancing villagers
, "God bless them, said my wife-I do not envy their happines!”

Kentucky Gazette (Lexington, Ky. : 1789): 1797-02-01

1797 story 'LETTER XXVII'
“…I could not keep my eyes from gazing on Ophelia, till called by the rustic master of the Revels,
to join the general dance….When the inspiration of the pipe and tabor ceased…”

'A Complete History of Connecticut', 1797 by Trumbull, Benjamin.

1800 essay

“When all mankind revelled in the delights of a kind practical "socialism", and had nothing to do but
tend their flocks and sing their loves, employments which however seem to have been occasionally
varied by dancing to the pipe and tabor...."

‘Royal Dresden Gallery : being a selection of subjects engraved after pictures by the great masters ... with accompanying notices,
consisting of tales, biographies, etc’ by Payne, A. H. (Albert Henry)

 (from pamphlet published in Albany, NY, in the state library):

A PINKSTER ODE
For the Year 1803.
"Now hark! the Banjo, rub a dub,
Like a washer-woman's tub;
And hear the drum, 'tis rolling now,
Row de dow, row de dow.
The pipe and tabor, flute and fife,
Shall wake the dullest soul to life."

a few verses later in the ode:

"The fiddles touch their sweetest strings,
While the ebon lassie sings;
And the pipe and tabor plays,
Brisk and merry rounde lays.
Again the fife and hollow drum
Calls you-come together come,
And sing a little, and laugh a little,
And fiddle a little, and foot it a little,"

Pinkster was a traditional Dutch celebration of the Christian holiday Pentecost and springtime,
and was adopted by early African American communities in New York and New Jersey.
It typically ran from three to six days. The festival remained an important feature of regional
African American life and culture well into the 19th century. (source)

1812 poem 'The Patriotic Diggers' by Samuel Woodward.
Men from all walks of life volunteered to join the army:

"...How they break the soil! Brewers, butchers, bakers
     Here the doctors toil, there the undertakers.
     Bright Apollo's sons leave their pipe and tabor
     Mid the roar of guns, join the martial labor...."

1816 novel

“…Mrs. Sudwell, my laundress, had given a dance the night before, to sixteen people of fashion
of her acquaintance, quite in stile….we'd a fddle and a pipe and tabor;…”
‘Uncle Tweazy and his quizzical neighbours: a comi-satiric novel’ ..

1825 song:

 “I will sing of General Jackson/
Who the foe he has ne’er turned his back on,/
But his soldiers, with all their knapsacks on,/
Did make all de English stray./
He fought them one and all,/
And his courage was not very small,/
For he cut them with his sabre,/
And their backs he did belabour;/
Then we’ll sound the pipe and tabor,/
Hurrah! Hurrah! Hurrah!—Hurrah for General Jackson

1831 poem ‘Dancing Gaily’ Music by Davies.

“Sweet the hour, when, freed from labour,
Lads and lasses thus convene,
To the merry pipe and tabour,
Dancing gaily on the green….”

Melodies, duets, trios, songs, and ballads, pastoral, amatory, sentimental, patriotic, religious, and miscellaneous.
Together with metrical epistles, tales and recitations by Woodworth, Samuel

1837 story‘ORIGINAL  TALES  .THE  SEXTON  OF  ST. HUBERT'S  .IN  TWO  CHAPTERS - CHAPTER  THE  FIRST 
"One  village  ,  in  particular  ,  is  famous  for  its  Mayday  sports  ,  which  ,  as  the  curate  is  a  little  ,  withered  antiquary  ,
  are conducted  with  great  ceremony  and  fidelity  to  old  authorities  .  The May  pole  is  brought  home  ,  garlanded  , 
and  decked  with  ribands  ,  to  the sound  of pipe  and  tabour  ,  surrounded  by  a  laughing  throng  of  sturdy yeomen 
and  buxom  maidens..."
New-York Mirror. vol. 14, no. 28-52; vol. 15, no. 1-27 (1837)

1845 story – rich girl falls in love with a troubadour in France

“…But soon this stillness was broken by the joyous songs of some peasant girls, assembled on the other side
of ‘the stream, who were, immediately after, joined by their favorite swains ; anon the pipe and tabor struck up,
and they fell adancing with all the vivacity characteristic of their nation….”

‘The Rover, a Dollar Weekly Magazine’ 1845-03-22: Vol 5 Iss 1

1847 children's story ‘The Little Marmot’
“…Sometimes the poor little Savoyards come from their native country, bringing Marmots with them, which dance
to the sound of a pipe and tabor, as they have been taught ; and people who are pleased to see it, give the little
boys some money….”

'The Little Basket-Maker: And Other Tales. A Story Book for Holiday Hours' by William G. Wardle, King & Baird

1850’s story for children ‘The Bear’

“Laura saw a man, with a pipe and tabor, on which he was playing to something that was dancing, but what
that was Laura could not tell…. The poor beast was made to move about upon its two hinder-paws, but did
it very awkwardly, and seemed very tired. However, the man began again to play on his pipe and tabor,
and the poor creature kept moving as long as he did so " What can it be, Mary" said Laura again. "It is a Bear, Laura,…

...as the crowd, moved on, Laura saw two or three droll little dogs, curiously dressed up like men and women,
some in scarlet jackets, and others in gay silk petticoats, following the Bear. She had not observed these dogs
before, and pointed: them out to her mamma. The man now again began to play, and made some sign to the dogs,
upon which they also began to jump about on their hinder legs, very much to the amusement of Laura, who laughed
heartily at the comical figures the dogs made in their smart but strange dresses….”

'Sister Mary's stories about animals' : illustrated with pictures by Orr, John William

1853 poem

“…To it, succeed the’ pipe and tabour,'
The sprightly dance, to manual labour;
And every little Miss shall larn,
To twist her curls, instead of yarn….”

‘The outlines of a speech to be delivered on the hustings at the next general election for the province of Nova-Scotia ‘
by Fessenden, Thomas G. (Thomas Green), 1771-1837

1856 poem ‘The Working Man’
“…Wouldst thou be an idle drone,
Living on another's labor?
Be a giant lazzarone,
Nodding to a pipe and tabor?
Why, thy manly brow would flush,
Not with pleasure, but with loathing,
And thy bronzed cheek would blush,
Red with shame at doing nothing….”

‘Poems’ by Hallock, B.

1858 THE O'LINCOLN FAMILY by Mr. Wilson Flagg

 " A flock of merry singing-birds were sporting in the grove;
Some were warbling cheerily, and some were making love:
There were Bobolincon, Wadolincon, Winterseeble, Conquedle,—
A livelier set was never led by tabor, pipe, or fiddle,—
Crying, “Phew, shew, Wadolincon, see, see, Bobolincon,
Down among the tickletops, hiding in the buttercups!"

The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 02, No. 12, October, 1858

1865

"Come, tune up and summon, with pipe and with tabor",  

'The Cheerless Condition of Bachelorship' by George Moses Horton

'What One Finds In The Country' by Henry Abbey

“…The clouds were jellied amber;
The crickets in the grass
Blew pipe and hammered tabor,
And laughed to see me pass….”

1870 sermon

“…Toilers of truth are we, -who at our labor
Keep the sharp sword still girded at the thigh,
Needing no summons of the pipe and tabor.
Fighting and building till the end be nigh….”

‘A Farewell Sermon Delivered in the First Presbyterian Church, Ann Arbor, Michigan’ by Samuel Willoughby Duffield

1881 poem ‘Thanksgiving’
“…Not then went the toiler to labor,
The task of subduing the earth,
With the sound of the pipe; and the tabor;,
With anthems of joyance and mirth.
…
So, dear little sister and brother,
Join voices and hearts in the song:
To the sound of the pipe; and the tabor;
Weave chorals of gladness and mirth,
For the toiler may rest from his labor,
And plenty hath dowered the earth….”

Harper's Bazaar, 1881, Vol.14 (50), p.786

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."

1881 poem 'THANKSGIVING'

“WHEN the orchards with blossoms were blushing,
The willows unrolling their leaves,
And the fields with the tender wheat flushing
That soon would be waving with sheaves,
Not then went the toller to labor,
The task of subduing the earth,
With the sound of the pipe and the tabor,
With anthems of joyance and mirth.”

Harper's Bazaar, 1881, Vol.14 (50), p.786

1883 review ‘La Belle Dame sans Merci.’

“Across from far away, like leaves of autumn, skirred the dappled deer. The music grew, timbrel
and pipe and tabor, as beneath the glances of the moon the little company sped…”

‘Stylus’  Boston College Chestnut Hill, Mass.

'The Joy-bringer: Fifty Three Melodies of the One-in-twain'. by Thomas Lake Harris

“…walls being constructed of the stuff that dreams are made of, and its little life is rounded
with a pipe and tabor, two empties and a brass tray….”

The Philistine: A Periodical of Protest 1900-11: Vol 11 Iss 6

1901 Story set in Elizabethan times:

"…I pray you, captain, make no charge against the others. I have charmed them with a flute and tabor…They went,
I think, to speed some friendly Indians on their homeward way. But he is mad with his pipe and tabor,… There,
in the middle of the glade, sat Roger Prat on his tabor, piping for dear life, while Gyll Croyden flashed in and out
amid the shadows in a dance even more fast and furious than the tune. But this was not all; for there, in ludicrous
contrast, stood King Lud, the bear, facing her from across the sward, erect on his hind-legs and curveting clumsily
about. His nose sniffed the air; his fore-paws dangled idly on his shaggy breast; but the bandy hind-legs danced with
an awkward alacrity…Roger Prat, a somewhat sheepish trepidity in his bulging eyes, jumped up from the tabor,
and, thrusting the pipe with an obvious attempt at concealment into his belt, bowed low before them. ''Thus' he
ventured, waving his fat hand at the dark figures on the water's edge — " thus we tame the redskins'…”

'John Vytal : a tale of the lost colony' by Payson, William Farquhar

1901 story set in Elizabethan times:

“…he found in a room filled with tobacco smoke, where a number of suburb rascals and sightseeing rustics
were at the moment watching a fantastic fellow dance to a comrade’s pipe and tabour….”

‘Captain Ravenshaw, or, The maid of Cheapside a romance of Elizabethan London’

1902 hymn

“…Citizens of regions
Past imagining!
What, with pipe and tabor
Dream away the light,
When He bids you labor,
When He tells you, "Fight?'…”

‘The Order for evensong with hymns : for use in the Lady Chapel of S. Mark's Church, Philadelphia’

1922 poem 'A SONG OF AUTUMN'

“Tis old Autumn the musician
Who with pipe and tabor weaves
The sweet music lovers sigh for
In the falling of the leaves….”

'Sierran Pan, and other poems, with a Christmas memory' by Bland, Henry Meade

“George White’s Scandals. Some like musical comedy hot, some like it bold, some like it well seasoned,
so that they can understand the jokes…. For it is the peculiar genius of Mr. White to make an act out of
an anecdote, to spin an innocent jest with pipe, tabor, scenery, and bring down his curtain on a guffaw…”

Time 1925-07-06: Vol 6 Iss 1 The Weekly News Magazine

1961 lecture

“Program for our March meeting was a special lecture /demonstration by Dr. Howard Brown of the University
of Chicago Music Department, who discussed and demonstrated the cromorne, pipe and tabour, cornetto
and Baroque flute….”

The American Recorder Spring 1961: Vol 2 Iss 2

1972 poem ‘The St. Lawrence and the Saguenay and other poems : Hesperus and other poems and lyrics’ by Sangster, Charles

1994 fantasy story

“…Friday brought the Mayor, who was skilled with pipe and tabor so I could display my trills and taps and on a
Saturday the old priest listened to me read…humming a catchy little tune the mayor had taught me for my pipe….
If there was a fair, a saint's day or a local fiesta, out would come my pipe and tabor and Gill would sing, Growch
would "dance for the lady," answer yes or no and "die for his country." ...A traveling band-bagpipes, two shawm,
a fiddle, trumpet, pipe and tabor and a girl singer with a tambourine performed for the dancers. Round followed
reel and back again…I came upon a late November village wedding-none too soon from the look of the bride's
waistline-and I stuffed myself stupid in return for a handful of coins and a tune or two on my pipe and tabor…”

'Pigs don't Fly' by Mary Brown

“…The sound of a pipe and tabour and a group of singers and dancers caused a diversion…”

'The Christmas Belles' by Andrew, Sylvia