worldwide traditions
Australia
under construction
The indigenous people of Australia do not have a pipe and tabor tradition. That was brought over by colonialists in Victorian or earlier times. The evolution of pipe and tabor was based upon English traditions and followed a similar path to that in England.
John Randall was born 1764 in New Haven, Conn. North America, died in Australia. John Randall, a Negro laborer, was tried at Manchester on 14 April 1785 for stealing a watch chain on the docks at Liverpool. Sent to the Ceres hulk in 1786,aged 21 sentenced to 7 years transportation. He was a crack shot. He was made an official game keeper by governor Phillip and killed the first Emu seen by Europeans. In June 1799 Randall was accused of theft of plates and glasses from the governor, but was forgiven. Randall was about 6 feet and well built. He played the flute and tambour. |
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1819 pandean pipes: “The Queen's Birthday Ball, 23 January 1819 The Sydney Gazette, and New South Wales Advertiser Saturday, 23 January 1819 |
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1829 Tasmania, poem (part) Colonial Times (Hobart, Tas. : 1828 - 1857) Friday 25 December 1829 - Page 3 | |||||
1831 English ExtractsThe Sydney Monitor (NSW : 1828 - 1838) Wednesday 1 June 1831 - Page 4 |
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“1832. Churchman Thomas, Glory, pipe maker and servant, to George Watkins, Sydney”NEW SOUTH WALES. RETURN OF ALL CONVICTS ASSIGNED AND TRANSFERRED BETWEEN THE 1st AND 31st DAYS OF MAY, 1832, INCLUSIVELY.Government Gazette Notices - New South Wales Government Gazette (Sydney, NSW : 1832 - 1900) Wednesday 22 August 1832 - Page 246 [This could be a person who makes pipes for smoking] |
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1837 The pipe and tabor played on the Sabbath: The Sydney Gazette and New South Wales Advertiser (NSW : 1803 - 1842) Thursday 16 February 1837 - Page 2 |
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1838 The Australian (Sydney, NSW : 1824 - 1848) Friday 9 March 1838 - Page 4 | |||||
1843 Her Majesties Birthday: The Sydney Morning Herald (NSW : 1842 - 1954) Thursday 25 May 1843 - Page 2 |
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1848 SyrianWeddings The Britannia and Trades' Advocate (Hobart Town, Tas. : 1846 - 1851) Thursday 6 April 1848 - Page 4 |
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1848 Ball Bell's Life in Sydney and Sporting Reviewer (NSW : 1845 - 1860) Saturday 9 December 1848 - Page 3 |
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1849 The Floral Society The Sydney Morning Herald (NSW : 1842 - 1954) Thursday 3 May 1849 - Page 2 |
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1849 'The times are changed': The Argus (Melbourne, Vic. : 1848 - 1957) Tuesday 8 May 1849 - Page 2 |
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1849 “The " Mary Ann."- Colonial Times (Hobart, Tas. : 1828 - 1857) Friday 18 May 1849 - Page 2 |
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1849 The Moreton Bay Courier (Brisbane, Qld. : 1846 - 1861) |
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1850 Ball Colonial Times (Hobart, Tas. : 1828 - 1857) Friday 25 January 1850 - Page 2 | |||||
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1865 North Australian Annual RacesQueensland Times, Ipswich Herald and General Advertiser (Qld. : 1861 - 1908) Thursday 8 June 1865 - Page 3 |
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1866 advertisement: South Australian Register (Adelaide, SA : 1839 - 1900) Wednesday 5 December 1866 - Page 1 | |||||
1866 report on South Australian Institute soiree: "The lecturer then referred to the songs
contained in many of Shakspeare's plays, and exhibited some dolls which he made dance South Australian Register (Adelaide, SA : 1839 - 1900) Wednesday 19 December 1866 - Page 2 |
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1867 Select Poetry - Musings The Manning River News and Advocate for the Northern Coast Districts of New South Wales (Tinonee, NSW : 1865 - 1873) |
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1870 “The Riddler: Charade, by H.Gardner.—South Australian Register (Adelaide, SA : 1839 - 1900) Saturday 9 April 1870 - Page 7 | |||||
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1874 ‘The Forthcoming Regatta’ “extract from one of the Essays of the " Country Parson," (Rev. A. K. H. Boyd, D.D.j, titled " Work and Play." He says : —The Grafton Argus and Clarence River General Advertiser Friday 2 October 1874 - Page 2 |
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1875 from the poem 'The Poet’s Pilgrimage':Dalby Herald and Western Queensland Advertiser (Qld. : 1866 - 1879) Friday 1 January 1875 - Page 2 | |||||
1878 poem: Sydney Punch (NSW : 1864 - 1888) Saturday 26 January 1878 - Page 7 |
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1878 ‘Back to Back':The Capricornian (Rockhampton, Qld. : 1875 - 1929 )Saturday 18 May 1878 - Page 5 | |||||
1878 poem The Record and Emerald Hill and Sandridge Advertiser (Vic. : 1872 - 1881) Friday 12 July 1878 - Page 3 | |||||
1880The Burrowa News (NSW : 1874 - 1951) Friday 6 February 1880 - Page 2 |
1880 poem 'May Day' Devon Herald (Latrobe, Tas. : 1877 - 1889) Wednesday 28 April 1880 - Page 3 | ||||
1880 The Sydney Mail and New South Wales Advertiser (NSW : 1871 - 1912) Saturday 9 October 1880 - Page 680 | |||||
1881The Sydney Mail and New South Wales Advertiser (NSW : 1871 - 1912) Saturday 26 November 1881 - Page 889 | |||||
1882 Music Festival … 2 bass trombones, 2 tabors, 2 kettle-drums, … The South Australian Advertiser (Adelaide, SA : 1858 - 1889) Tuesday 16 May 1882 - Page 5 |
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1884The Argus (Melbourne, Vic. : 1848 - 1957) Thursday 8 May 1884 - Page 6 |
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1884 ‘Street Music and the Salvation Army’Port Augusta Dispatch (SA : 1884) Monday 1 December 1884 - Page 2 | |||||
1884 ‘Cathedral Choral Societies Concert’ South Australian Register (Adelaide, SA : 1839 – 1900) Monday 1 December 1884 - Page 6 | |||||
1884 ‘The Grandest Sight ever seen in the Southern Hemisphere’ The Argus (Melbourne, Vic. : 1848 - 1957) Saturday 6 December 1884 - Page 16 | |||||
1884 ‘Original Poetry - Uncles Fred’s Story’The Areas' Express (Booyoolee, SA : 1877 - 1948) Friday 19 December 1884 - Page 3 | |||||
1885 'Judge Dowling and the Salvation Army' The Shoalhaven Telegraph (NSW : 1881 - 1937) Thursday 5 November 1885 - Page 2 | |||||
1886 Iolanthe was performed: in which “Phyllis is determined to stick to her pipes and her tabors, and says she can spell all the words which she uses, The South Australian Advertiser (Adelaide, SA : 1858 - 1889) Thursday 7 January 1886 - Page 5 |
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1886 ‘Low Ambition of the Life and Death of Mr Daw’Record (Emerald Hill, Vic. : 1881 - 1954) Saturday 3 April 1886 - Page 5 |
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1886 The St. James's Gazette, England, writing on the " Portents of War, " observes: …“Over and over again we have heard from the foreign correspondents that peace was certain; that everything was on the very verge of amicable arrangement that everything, in fact, had been actually settled, and that it was not too soon to bring forth the pipę, the tabor, and the shawn, to celebrate the final disappearance of the war-cloud….” The Kyneton Observer (Vic. : 1856 - 1900) Saturday 10 April 1886 - Page 3 |
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1886The Sydney Morning Herald (NSW : 1842 - 1954) Monday 18 October 1886 - Page 8 | |||||
1887 ‘A Strange Shivoo’ (story): “The curious epistle appended purports to be the true chronicle of a modern wedding— in ancient garb—celebrated recently within a radius of fifty miles of this agricultural centre:…”The Kyneton Observer (Vic. : 1856 - 1900) Saturday 20 August 1887 - Page 3 |
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1887 Advertisement: The Daily Telegraph (Sydney, NSW : 1883 - 1930) Monday 3 October 1887 - Page 8 | |||||
1887 ‘The Excommunication of Dr. Cameron Lees, the Traducer of the Beautiful Harbour’Melbourne Punch (Vic. : 1855 - 1900) Thursday 3 November 1887 - Page 5 | |||||
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1888 Story: ‘For Faith and Freedom by Walter Besant’The Australasian (Melbourne, Vic. : 1864 - 1946) Saturday 21 July 1888 - Page 14 | |||||
1888 Salvation Army Music “…The army assert and have shown themselves prepared to maintain, even at the risk of imprisonment, the right of procession to the sound of musical instruments, pipe tabor and drum. Again and again have the army and municipalities been brought into conflict, the result being sometimes in favour of one and sometimes of the other, until confusion seemed to become worse confounded….” Leader (Melbourne, Vic. : 1862 - 1918, 1935) Saturday 29 December 1888 - Page 25 |
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1889 'Australian Autumn'The Argus (Melbourne, Vic. : 1848 - 1957) Saturday 30 March 1889 - Page 13 |
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1889 poem ‘Sunday Reading, The Top of the Hill by Sydney Grey’:South Australian Chronicle (Adelaide, SA : 1889 - 1895) Saturday 9 November 1889 - Page 16 | |||||
1889 ‘Christmas Carillons – XI The Christmas Pie’The Maitland Mercury and Hunter River General Advertiser (NSW : 1843 - 1893) Saturday 21 December 1889 - Page 1 | |||||
1890 The Colonist (Launceston, Tas. : 1888 - 1891) Saturday 20 December 1890 - Page 32 | |||||
1893 “On and Off the Stage: Table Talk (Melbourne, Vic. : 1885 - 1939) Friday 15 September 1893 - Page 5 |
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1893 “Amusements. LyceumTheatre Evening News (Sydney, NSW : 1869 - 1931) Monday 4 December 1893 - Page 3 |
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1893 ‘Mr Patterson’s Happy Thought’The Australian Star (Sydney, NSW : 1887 - 1909) Thursday 28 December 1893 - Page 4 | |||||
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1894 Appeal on behalf of The Tempe Refuge: “…It- is not the kindly human nature which will revolt at the entertainment of pipe and tabor in the refuge cause… The date on which practical response may be made is Tuesday next-, and we may hope that the summing up of the next day will show, not only that the appeal has been effective…” The Australian Star (Sydney, NSW : 1887 - 1909) Wednesday 20 June 1894 - Page 4 |
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1894 Advertisement: The Brisbane Courier (Qld. : 1864 - 1933) Thursday 30 August 1894 - Page 2 | |||||
1895 'The Federal Appeal' - In a political speech:The Australian Star (Sydney, NSW : 1887 - 1909) Wednesday 10 July 1895 - Page 4 | |||||
1897 Queen Victoria's Diamond Jubilee The Australian Star (Sydney, NSW : 1887 - 1909) Wednesday 31 March 1897 - Page 4 | |||||
1897 poem penned in the USA: The Tocsin (Melbourne, Vic. : 1897 - 1906) Thursday 21 October 1897 - Page 10 | |||||
1898 song: ‘Original Poetry – Sons of Austral Rouse from Slumber’ Air: "Haydn's Hymn." North Melbourne Gazette (Vic. : 1894 - 1901) Friday 27 May 1898 - Page 3 | |||||
1898 poem ‘Words of Forewarning’ by Clarence Manga:Clare's Weekly (Perth, WA : 1897 - 1899) Saturday 11 June 1898 - Page 4 | |||||
1898 William Collins ‘The Passions’:Leader (Melbourne, Vic. : 1862 - 1918, 1935) Saturday 19 November 1898 - Page 22 | |||||
1899 “In one New South Wales country town the ' Army ' has made a fresh departure. Last week four people, dressed as jockeys and mounted on valetudinarian war-horses, led the procession, followed by pipe and tabor.” The Sydney Mail and New South Wales Advertiser (NSW : 1871 - 1912) Saturday 18 March 1899 - Page 612 |
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1902 Advertisement in ‘The People’s Cash Column’:Daily Telegraph (Launceston, Tas. : 1883 - 1928) Saturday 4 October 1902 - Page 8 | |||||
1902 report of a royal visit to London: Evening News (Sydney, NSW : 1869 – 1931) Saturday 4 October 1902 - Page 4 | |||||
1902 article ‘Zola the Friend of Labour’Worker (Brisbane, Qld. : 1890 - 1955) Saturday 27 December 1902 - Page 7 | |||||
to be continued |
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