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Today's #marginal #musician is a #fool playing #pipeandtabor.
From a #15thCentury #bookofhours, c1440-1460
Gent. Universiteitsbibliotheek, MS 186

#MarginaliaMonday
#earlymusic #manuscriptmonday #illuminatedmanuscript
September 22, 2025 at 12:57 PM
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First evening dance out of the season...

@cotonmorris.bsky.social #MorrisDancing #PipeAndTabor
A man in Morris whites plays tabor and pipe for a dancer who is in the air. They are outside a pub.
May 8, 2025 at 8:35 PM
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Today's #marginal #musician is definitely showing off...
Playing #pipeandtabor while on #stilts, and balancing a lit #candle on his head :)
From the Bassus book of Zeghere van Male's #chansonnier, c1542.
Ca Ms 127 (124)
#earlymusic #earlymodern #marginaliamonday #illuminatedmanuscript #16thCentury
June 2, 2025 at 8:27 AM
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It's #Purim today, so here is a #15thCentury #illumination showing people dancing to the #pipeandtabor.
And feasting.
From #Maimonides’ #Mishneh #Torah, Northern Italy, c1470.
Biblioteca Apostolica Vaticana.
#earlymusic #judaica #otd #illuminatedmanuscript #earlydance
March 14, 2025 at 7:56 AM
passamezzo.bsky.social
Today's #marginal #musician is a lion/bird/man playing the #pipeandtabor.
Cheerfully dressed in primary colours...
From Boccaccio's Des cas des nobles hommes et femmes, c1413-1415
Getty Ms. 63 (96.MR.17)
#earlymusic #illuminatedmanuscript #marginaliamonday #boccaccio #15thcentury
March 17, 2025 at 10:06 AM
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Happy Thursday!

@cotonmorris.bsky.social
#MorrisDancing
#PipeAndTabor
#TheCutter
#Ely
A black tabor pipe on a light brown tabor, with a light brown drumstick. It sits on some granite setts next to a partially dry drunk pint of Scoundrel
July 2, 2026 at 8:17 PM
passamezzo.bsky.social
Today's marginal #musicians are a couple of #shepherds with their #dogs, taking a break from playing #bagpipe &#pipeandtabor.
From a #15thCentury missal
Bibliothèque municipale de Rouen, Ms Y 1

#earlymusic #marginalia #marginaliamonday #illuminatedmanuscript #bagpipes #dog
July 28, 2025 at 9:45 AM
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What I did on my weekend (photo courtesy of Saskia from #WharfedaleWayzgoose)

#MorrisDancing
#PipeAndTabor
#Musician
Idiot in white trousers, white shirt and black waistcoat playing a black tabor pipe and a brown tabor. They are stood in a sunny pub car park in the Yorkshire Dales.
May 28, 2026 at 8:00 AM
passamezzo.bsky.social
Today's #marginal #musicians are a couple of #dogs, each wearing a hood and a cardinal's hat and playing pipe and tabor.
From a #15thCentury #bookofhours.
Morgan MS G4
#MarginaliaMonday #earlymusic #illuminatedmanuscript #pipeandtabor #musicaldog #dog
March 24, 2025 at 11:56 AM
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Lunch break shenanigans

#PipeAndTabor
#TaborPipe
#DoublePipe
Idiot in green jumper stood outside a brick building playing two Susato tabor pipes, one in G and one in A at the same time. Playing All In A Garden Green, because he is in a garden which is mostly green and entirely out of shot. So that's a pun that works brilliantly with this photo.
February 27, 2025 at 2:42 PM
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Passamezzo #AdventCalendar: Day 8

Marginal #musician playing #pipeandtabor. Detail from a page showing the #Nativity, in a #15thCentury French #BookofHours.
From the Spitz Hours, c1420.
#GettyMuseum ms 57 (94.ML.26)

#earlymusic #marginaliamonday #manuscriptmonday
December 8, 2025 at 9:07 AM
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Today's #marginalmusicians (a #monkey and a #fox) are playing #pipeandtabor.
From Pierre Michault, Doctrinal du temps présent et Danse aux aveugles, 1475-80
BNF Français 1654

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medieval monkey playing pipe and tabor Medieval manuscript with fox playing pipe and tabor
February 23, 2026 at 1:12 PM
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So that was the first big weekend of the summer...

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#LeedsMorris #DalesTour
#MorrisDancing
#PipeAndTabor
Coton Morris, a mixed Cotswold Morris side dance Lads a'Bunchum in the style of Adderbury outside the Craven Arms in Appletreewick. Coton Morris wear white trousers, white shirts, black waistcoats and black bells that hang from straps just under their knees. There are men and women dancing. They are holding long hazel sticks, about 900 mm long and 25 mm diameter. Furthest from the camera is the musician, who is playing a tabor and pipe, which is a drum suspended over his left elbow and a pipe played with his left arm. The pub is built of sandstone and is covered in a climbing plant, possibly a Virginia creeper. There is a pub sign with a shield painted on it. There is also a Ukrainian flag flying from the wall of the pub. What I haven't mentioned is the Leeds Morris Fool, who is stood behind one line of the Coton set. He is wearing a top hat, a tailcoat covered in badges and maroon, green and white braid, black breeches and one green sock and one maroon sock. His beard is plaited into a silver ring. He is nonchalantly swinging a bull's bladder on a stick and hitting dancers on the backside in time with the music. Photograph by Jenny from Jet Set Border Morris, who require a post of their own, because they are also fabulous.
May 27, 2025 at 4:09 PM
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Thank you Neil for the photo. Fingers didn't fall off, but It was fairly nippy! @cotonmorris.bsky.social
#PipeandTabor #MillRoadWinterFair
Old man in black jacket and white trousers plays tabor and pipe for some out of shot Morris dancers.
December 2, 2023 at 8:22 PM
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Tabor pipe, as in tabor and pipe/#PipeAndTabor

Was it a drainpipe didgeridoo? I have a eucalyptus wood one with a lovely tone.
Idiot playing tabor and pipe. The tabor is a wooden snare drum (played on the end with the snare on it) and the pipe is a three holed, end blown fipple pipe. With successive overblows and judicious cross-fingering, you can get over an octave and a half out of it. Both are played at the same time. The modern practice seems to be to play the melody and keep up a fairly simple beat, but historically one played the tabor and the melody accompaniment was secondary to that.
November 1, 2025 at 3:23 PM
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What about if they play drums and woodwind at the same time? #PipeAndTabor #TaborAndPipe
Hairy man in a hat playing a tabor and pipe. Behind is a woman in a floppy hat playing a whistle and a goth playing a melodeon.
November 2, 2023 at 7:21 AM