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Pipe and tabor

"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.

  • Date:
    about 1820 (Made)
  • Maker:
    Falkner & Christmas
  • Collection:
    Victoria and Albert Museum
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  • Place of production:
    London
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  • Materials:turned stained boxwood pipe and drum-stick; stretched hides, pine rims and brass shell to tabor.
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  • Inscriptions:Falkner & Christmas No. 9, Pall Mall London
  • Hornbostel-Sachs category:
  • Repository:Victoria and Albert Museum
  • Measurements:Length: 28.5 cm pipe (total), Length: 23.5 cm drum-stick, Diameter: 28.5 cm diameter of tabor