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Definition of Tabor pipe
1. Noun. A small fipple flute that is played with the left hand while the right hand is free to beat a tabor.
Lexicographical Neighbors of Tabor Pipe
Literary usage of Tabor pipe
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. A Descriptive Catalogue of the Musical Instruments Recently Exhibited at the by Charles Russell Day, David James Blaikley (1891)
"The peculiarity of the tabor-pipe is that it has but three finger-holes, two in
front and one behind, all being placed very near the end furthest from the ..."
2. Grove's Dictionary of Music and Musicians by George Grove (1910)
"TABOR, a small drum usually associated with the tabor pipe. Pipe-and-tabor playing
is not quite dead in certain rural districts in the south of England, ..."
3. Secret History of the Court of James the First by Walter Scott (1811)
"... with this, being his tabor-stick, his palm of his hand his tabor, and his
mouth his pipe, he would so imitate a tabor-pipe, as if it had been so indeed. ..."
4. Old English Instruments of Music: Their History and Character by Francis William Galpin (1911)
"It was technically known as the Three-holed Flute, but is more familiar to us
under the English name of Tabor- Pipe, for it was usually associated with the ..."
5. The American History and Encyclopedia of Music by Janet M. Green, Josephine Thrall (1908)
"See tabor. PIPE ORGAN — Whistles and Beating and Free Reeds. Europe. The accepted
origin of the pipe organ is in the Pan pipes. The same principle underlies ..."
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