http://launch.groups.yahoo.com/group/tabor_n_pipe/ Lets talk about tabor and tabor pipes- how to play, where to get them, how to find the music, where to find other crazy people Tue, 17 Nov 2009 21:13:31 GMT Jeremy H. Kessler http://launch.groups.yahoo.com/group/tabor_n_pipe/message/1648 http://launch.groups.yahoo.com/group/tabor_n_pipe/message/1648 Hi Steven, Welcome to the fun world of pipe & tabor! ... When discussing Susato whistles and/or tabor pipes, it is good to note bore size as well as key. Tue, 17 Nov 2009 17:56:29 GMT Steven http://launch.groups.yahoo.com/group/tabor_n_pipe/message/1647 http://launch.groups.yahoo.com/group/tabor_n_pipe/message/1647 Thanks Steve R. -Steven, the other Steve R(oe) Tue, 17 Nov 2009 15:56:06 GMT Stephen Rowley http://launch.groups.yahoo.com/group/tabor_n_pipe/message/1646 http://launch.groups.yahoo.com/group/tabor_n_pipe/message/1646 For a small fee, Malcolm in the Vaughan Williams Memorial Library at EFDSS will post you a copy. Steve Tue, 17 Nov 2009 15:51:27 GMT Steven http://launch.groups.yahoo.com/group/tabor_n_pipe/message/1645 http://launch.groups.yahoo.com/group/tabor_n_pipe/message/1645 I contacted the The English Folk Dance and Song Society via email about the article concerning bore/length ratio that was mentioned previously. Here is the Tue, 17 Nov 2009 10:42:10 GMT Pete Stewart http://launch.groups.yahoo.com/group/tabor_n_pipe/message/1644 http://launch.groups.yahoo.com/group/tabor_n_pipe/message/1644 Frances Sorry, the picture I remembered is the one of Joan Sharp playing for Douglas Kennedy that's in the Grahame Lyndon-Jones article from FoMRHI. That issue Tue, 17 Nov 2009 10:37:08 GMT Pete Stewart http://launch.groups.yahoo.com/group/tabor_n_pipe/message/1643 http://launch.groups.yahoo.com/group/tabor_n_pipe/message/1643 Thinking about practice leads me to another suggestion about beginning to play tabor; perhaps you should abandon any idea of tune and start with just one Tue, 17 Nov 2009 10:28:37 GMT Pete Stewart http://launch.groups.yahoo.com/group/tabor_n_pipe/message/1642 http://launch.groups.yahoo.com/group/tabor_n_pipe/message/1642 Frances I have a picture of HK playing for someone (Douglas?) dancing, somewhere in my filing system (!). I'll try and dig it out pete _____ From: Tue, 17 Nov 2009 10:03:41 GMT Pete Stewart http://launch.groups.yahoo.com/group/tabor_n_pipe/message/1641 http://launch.groups.yahoo.com/group/tabor_n_pipe/message/1641 HI Clive ... the pipe, please do say! That's an easy one; practice; controlled, consistent, goal-oriented practice; works every time ... But I'm not sure Tue, 17 Nov 2009 04:54:30 GMT cd http://launch.groups.yahoo.com/group/tabor_n_pipe/message/1640 http://launch.groups.yahoo.com/group/tabor_n_pipe/message/1640 Hi Steven & All, The taborer?s poor brains have a lot to cope with and the two physical activities - piping and taboring ? would appear to demand quite Mon, 16 Nov 2009 23:02:15 GMT yurit58 http://launch.groups.yahoo.com/group/tabor_n_pipe/message/1639 http://launch.groups.yahoo.com/group/tabor_n_pipe/message/1639 Stephen (that's Roqley), do you think the "tabor first" would apply to other traditions, as in Provence or Northern Spain with the string drum, or in Colombia, Mon, 16 Nov 2009 22:07:47 GMT Steven http://launch.groups.yahoo.com/group/tabor_n_pipe/message/1638 http://launch.groups.yahoo.com/group/tabor_n_pipe/message/1638 Have besides the Bb have you had a chance to play any Susato "G" or "F" pipes? I really do like my C, but the volume and high pitch get to be a bit much at Mon, 16 Nov 2009 22:05:11 GMT Steven http://launch.groups.yahoo.com/group/tabor_n_pipe/message/1637 http://launch.groups.yahoo.com/group/tabor_n_pipe/message/1637 Thanks Steven, I am in denial -- but I know what you are saying must be true. I keep thinking "pipe first" in my head. I think playing whistle for so long has Mon, 16 Nov 2009 22:00:30 GMT Steven http://launch.groups.yahoo.com/group/tabor_n_pipe/message/1636 http://launch.groups.yahoo.com/group/tabor_n_pipe/message/1636 Hello Pete, Yes, I played quite a bit of tuba growing up, and even more guitar in later years. I do also play pennywhistle. I guess the hardest part for me is Mon, 16 Nov 2009 21:55:03 GMT Stephen Rowley http://launch.groups.yahoo.com/group/tabor_n_pipe/message/1635 http://launch.groups.yahoo.com/group/tabor_n_pipe/message/1635 With Susato pipes it is a case of play the pipe that just happens to have the right pitch/bore ratio - The high D is hard, the C is better - I like the Bb. The Mon, 16 Nov 2009 21:42:27 GMT frances http://launch.groups.yahoo.com/group/tabor_n_pipe/message/1634 http://launch.groups.yahoo.com/group/tabor_n_pipe/message/1634 Hi All Re: Helen Kennedy (1888-1976). Margaret Reid has given me some more information about Helen Kennedy, which I will add to the draft essay already in the