Pandean pipes history gallery 3

UK history: Over one century of the panpipes and tabor

All these images are copyright.
The majority are extracts from larger pictures and prints. Links to originals are given, where possible. If you have any more information on any of these images, or you are the copyright holder and I have not managed to get in touch with you, please do let me know.

page 3 - late Victorian

1852 sketch by Charles James Lewis

for May Day dancing 1857

painting, playing for acrobats 1858

outdoor music 1859

children's poetry book illustration 1859

Suburban Fiar, 1860

playing for acrobats 1860 10114159

1860's photograph

for puppet show

playing for Punch and Judy c 1860

'The Punch and Judy Show'
by T Webster mid-Victorian

playing for street acrobats 1861 10221908

1861 Metropolitan Gossip 1861

Empire (Sydney, NSW : 1850 - 1875) Thursday 1 August 1861 - Page 2

1862 newspaper cutting describing Catan Hill Fair 1862 newspaper cutting

West Surrey Times - Saturday 04 October 1862

1865

"The sweeps of Ryde revived Jack-in-the-Green on May-day, and he cut the usual capers to the music of a full band, consisting of chin-pipes, drum, scrapers, and shovels. Some old ones and all young ones were amused with the grotesque display, so the venture seemed a profitable one."

The Isle of Wight Observer, 6 May 1865, page 3.

1880 newspaper commentary 1880 Eastbourne Chronicle - Saturday 14 February 1880

1880 Jack in the Green: One writer, evidently privvy to covert practices among at least one set of sweeps, apparently during the years around 1880, usefully noted how:

"First of all, in priority of engagement, is the musician. He must be able to play the drum - a tolerably easy achievement, in their style of performance, I should say - and the Pandean pipes, or mouth organ ; a less easy thing to do."

1884

London Evening Standard - Thursday 28 August 1884