Pipe and Tabor
about 1820 (Made)
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The pipe and tabor were widely used in medieval dance music and later by morris dancers. The musician usually played the pipe with his left hand and the tabor, a type of drum, with his right. This pipe and tabor originally belonged to John Seymour Lucas RA (1843 - 1923), a historical painter, who probably intended to use them as an artist's prop.
Object details
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| Parts | This object consists of 5 parts.
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| Materials and techniques | turned stained boxwood pipe and drum-stick; stretched hides, pine rims and brass shell to tabor. |
| Brief description | Pipe and tabor, English, stained boxwood pipe and stick, and drum with brass shell, Falkner & Christmas, about 1850. |
| Physical description | "The Pipe is of stained boxwood, in two joints, with two fingerholes and one thumbhole. Pitch C. The tabor is a shallow side drum with a brass shell ... It is accompanied by its drumstick". Anthony Baines,Catalogue of Musical Instruments in the Victoria and Albert Museum - Part II: Non-keyboard instruments (London, 1998), p. 90. |
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| Marks and inscriptions | Falkner & Christmas No. 9, Pall Mall London (Stamped on the pipe) |
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| Credit line | Given to the Museum by John Seymour Lucas RA |
| Object history | This instrument was given to the musem in 1902, by Seymour Lucas RA (1843-1932), a histoircal painter. |
| Summary | The pipe and tabor were widely used in medieval dance music and later by morris dancers. The musician usually played the pipe with his left hand and the tabor, a type of drum, with his right. This pipe and tabor originally belonged to John Seymour Lucas RA (1843 - 1923), a historical painter, who probably intended to use them as an artist's prop. |
| Bibliographic reference | Anthony Baines: Catalogue of Musical Instruments in the Victoria and Albert Museum - Part II: Non-keyboard instruments.<.i> (London, 1998), p. 90 |
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| Accession number | 1563-1902 |
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| Record created | May 16, 2001 |
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