the Pipe and Tabor compendium

draft essays on the three-hole pipe

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Some extant instruments

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Horniman Museum	18th century made by Potter	Pretorius bass copy MFA Boston	MFA Boston	1894 Paris	Mary Rose also see	from
Dayton C. Miller Flute Collection DCM 1637 Library of Congress	Cecil Sharp also see	Museum of London
Folklore VIII 1897				Longborough morris, Victorian
Lantern slide by Henry W Taunt (1860 - 1922). Copyright: English Heritage. National Monuments Record 'Merrie England' series. ts00002
Dayton C. Miller Flute Collection DCM 1292a and 1292b, Library of Congress, USA				Dayton C. Miller Flute Collection DCM 0722a and 0722b, Library of Congress, USA
Pitt Rivers Museum, Oxford				galoubet et tambourines
pipe, stick and tabor Victorian and Albert Museum (music section now closed)				Gloucester Folk Museum, display 2010

more French pipes (galoubet) here

[Only tabors connected with a specific tabor pipe are included here.]

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