right hand; the left hand held a thick, stubby beater to play a type of drum called a tabor. Traditionally associated with clowns and jesters, the pipe and tabor were used in dance music. Three pipes were found on the wreck of the ship Mary Rose, which sank off Portsmouth in 1545. Styles & Forms | Medieval Era ...
harpsichord plus a bass instrument such as a bass viol or baroque cello) accompanies two melodic instruments such as Baroque violins or flutes. Instruments as diverse as the shawm, tabor, fiddle, cittern, crumhorn, serpent and hurdy-gurdy have been very successfully resurrected. Current performing ensembles include the Baroque brass group, His Majestys Sagbuts and Cornetts, ...
The insistent rhythm of the snare drum has accompanied war, work and play since antiquity. The Romans marched to its beat, Elizabethan revellers danced to the pipe and tabor and in the days before field telephones, military messages were transmitted via drum calls. In the twentieth century the snare (or side) drum became an essential part of the ...
front like a lute rose and the latter a pair of C-shaped holes, not unlike a violin. Styles & Forms | Medieval Era | Classical Instruments | Pipe & Tabor | Medieval Era | Classical ...
brushes and sticks. Tenor Drum The tenor drum (38–45 cm/15–18 in diameter and 30 cm/12 in long) is deeper in tone than the snare drum. It originates from the medieval tabor, and normally has two heads and no snares. The tenor drum can be played with wooden sticks or soft mallets. It was used by foot regiments to provide rhythms ...
Whistles, or duct flutes, have a device to channel the player’s breath, so a narrow air stream hits a sharpened edge, causing the necessary turbulence to vibrate the air column without the player using any special embouchure. Usually this duct is created by inserting a block, known as a fipple, into the end of the ...
scene, including Nic Jones (who has not performed in public since a terrible car crash in 1982), Tony Rose (who died of cancer in 2002), Vin Garbutt, June Tabor, Dick Gaughan, Archie Fisher, Roy Bailey and Ashley Hutchings’ various incarnations of The Albion Band. Yet the Waterson: Carthy dynasty has been the UK scene’s heartbeat for ...
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