THE PIPE AND TABOR iii 



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 cherula. 



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. They appeared to hold the patriotic 

 opinion that the art of playing the galoubet, or 

 as they call it, the flMet, has never spread from 

 Provence because of its extreme difficulty. This 

 has been a comfort |l^o 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. 



