the Pipe and Tabor compendium

the Pipe and Tabor compendium

essays on the three-hole pipe

Europe: Street entertainers

acrobats

10th century acrobat10th century England, no taborer

13th century13th century Spain  
medieval13th century manuscript, France 343r
1275-991275-1299 France [source is manuscript - no picture]
1280-13001280-1300 236r
Reproduced by courtesy of the University Librarian and Director,
The John Rylands University Library, The University of Manchester

 
13th century 13th century France 1300-13101300-1310 Cambrai, France

13401340 manuscript England

medievalmedieval manuscript
© Bodleian Libraries, University of Oxford. 
stone carvingstone carving, date unknown
Carlisle Cathedral13th-14th century, Carlisle Cathedral
14th century1300-1350 Saint Omer, France

1335-1350 Cambridge, England

The taborer stands on the head of a devil.

early 16th centuryearly 16th century France 15301530 Innsbruck, Austria
18511851 with pandean pipes 18581858 painting with pandean pipes
18661866 'medieval' drawing
18761876 by Strutt ‘Sports and Pastimes of the People of England’    

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