Pipe and Tabor

A brief history of the tabor drum, with historical illustrations of tabors and pipe-and-tabor players.

These notes are the handouts from a class on Pipe and Tabor.

Descriptions, photos, history, and sounds of instruments used in performing early music. Includes the bagpipe, bladder pipe, cornamuse, crumhorn, dulcian, dulcimer, gamba, gemshorn, harp, harpsichord, hirtenschalmei, hurdy-gurdy, kortholt, lizard, lute, mute cornett, organetto, percussion, pipe and tabor, psaltery, rackett, rauschpfeife, rebec, recorder, sacbut, schalmei, serpent, shawm, shofar, transverse flute, viol, and zink.

On the history of the pipe and tabor.

Various pieces of music arranged for pipe and tabor, hurdy gurdy, or recorder consort.