THE PIPE AND TABOR in 



seven strings tuned alternately to the tonic and 

 dominant, which beaten with a stick make a drone 

 bass to the pipe. It has the attractively savage 

 name of toon-toona, an imitative word like tom- 

 tom ; the galoubet is called the cherida. 



From a French cyclopaedia I learn that in 

 Provence the taborer's art was a secret passed on 

 from father to son, a mystery they refused to teach 

 for money. Thej' appeared to hold the patriotic 

 opinion that the art of pla^dng the galoubet, or 

 as the}^ call it, the fliitet, has never spread from 

 Provence because of its extreme difficult3^ This 

 has been a comfort to me in my attempts to play 

 the pipe and tabor. 



APPENDIX I 

 Drawings and Carvings of Pipers 



At the risk of being tedious in the way of re- 

 petition I have thought it worth while to put 

 together a rough list of the illustrations of pipe 

 and tabor which I have met with. 



The earliest representation of a player on the 

 3-holed pipe, of which I have any knowledge, is the 

 beautiful figure in the Angel Choir at Lincoln. Its 

 date is, I believe, 1270, and it has been injured so 

 that it is not possible to be sure of the manner in 

 which the pipe is held. The tabor is suspended by 

 means of a string round the neck. 



